Sufficient conditions for a Heuristic Rating Estimation Method application
Provides theoretical foundations for practitioners using HRE in multi-criteria decision-making, ensuring correct application.
The paper identifies sufficient conditions for correctly applying the Heuristic Rating Estimation (HRE) method, covering arithmetic and geometric algorithms for complete and incomplete pairwise comparisons, and shows that inconsistency estimations in the arithmetic variant are optimal.
A series of papers has introduced the Heuristic Rating Estimation method, which evaluates a set of alternatives based on pairwise comparisons and the weights of reference alternatives. We formulate the conditions under which the HRE method can be applied correctly. The research considers both arithmetic and geometric algorithms for complete and incomplete pairwise comparison methods. The illustrative examples show that the estimations of inconsistency in the arithmetic variant are optimal.