Research Article
The Prioritization of Clinical Risk Factors of Obstructive Sleep Apnea Severity Using Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process
Table 2
9-point intensity of relative weight (importance or well-being) scale (adapted from [
11ā
15]).
| Intensity of importance/well-being | Definition | Significance |
| 1 | Equal importance/equally good | Two activities contribute equally to objective |
| 3 | Moderate importance of one factor over another/weakly | Experience and judgment slightly favor one activity over another |
| 5 | Strong or essential importance/strongly | Experience and judgment strongly favor one activity over another |
| 7 | Very strong importance/very strongly | An activity is strongly favored, and its dominance is demonstrated in practice |
| 9 | Extreme importance/absolutely better | The evidence favoring one activity over another is of the highest possible order of affirmation |
| | Intermediate value between the two adjacent judgments | When a compromise is needed |
| Reciprocals of the above nonzero numbers | Reciprocals for inverse comparison | ā |
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