scholarly journals Community-Based Decision Making and Priority Setting Using the R Software: The Community Priority Index

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamisu M. Salihu ◽  
Abraham A. Salinas-Miranda ◽  
Arnut Paothong ◽  
Wei Wang ◽  
Lindsey M. King
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Priority Setting ◽  
Multicriteria Decision Making ◽  
Community Settings ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Multicriteria Decision ◽  
Priority Index ◽  
Community Needs ◽  
R Program ◽  
Community Data

This paper outlines how to compute community priority indices in the context of multicriteria decision making in community settings. A simple R function was developed and validated with community needs assessment data. Particularly, the first part of this paper briefly overviews the existing methods for priority setting and reviews the utility of a multicriteria decision-making approach for community-based prioritization. The second part illustrates how community priority indices can be calculated using the freely available R program to handle community data by showing the computational and mathematical steps of CPI (Community Priority Index) with bootstrapped 95% confidence intervals.

scholarly journals Community Priority Index: utility, applicability and validation for priority setting in community-based participatory research

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamisu M. Salihu ◽  
Abraham A. Salinas-Miranda ◽  
Wei Wang ◽  
DeAnne Turner ◽  
Estrellita Lo Berry ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Participatory Research ◽  
Priority Setting ◽  
Nominal Group Technique ◽  
Community Based Participatory Research ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Nominal Group ◽  
Community Settings ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Priority Index

<em>Background</em>. Providing practitioners with an intuitive measure for priority setting that can be combined with diverse data collection methods is a necessary step to foster accountability of the decision-making process in community settings. Yet, there is a lack of easy-to-use, but methodologically robust measures, that can be feasibly implemented for reliable decision-making in community settings. To address this important gap in community based participatory research (CBPR), the purpose of this study was to demonstrate the utility, applicability, and validation of a community priority index in a community-based participatory research setting. <br /><em>Design and Methods</em>. Mixed-method study that combined focus groups findings, nominal group technique with six key informants, and the generation of a Community Priority Index (CPI) that integrated community importance, changeability, and target populations. Bootstrapping and simulation were performed for validation. <br /><em>Results</em>. For pregnant mothers, the top three highly important and highly changeable priorities were: stress (CPI=0.85; 95%CI: 0.70, 1.00), lack of affection (CPI=0.87; 95%CI: 0.69, 1.00), and nutritional issues (CPI=0.78; 95%CI: 0.48, 1.00). For non-pregnant women, top priorities were: low health literacy (CPI=0.87; 95%CI: 0.69, 1.00), low educational attainment (CPI=0.78; 95%CI: 0.48, 1.00), and lack of self-esteem (CPI=0.72; 95%CI: 0.44, 1.00). For children and adolescents, the top three priorities were: obesity (CPI=0.88; 95%CI: 0.69, 1.00), low self-esteem (CPI=0.81; 95%CI: 0.69, 0.94), and negative attitudes toward education (CPI=0.75; 95%CI: 0.50, 0.94). <br /><em>Conclusions</em>. This study demonstrates the applicability of the CPI as a simple and intuitive measure for priority setting in CBPR.

scholarly journals Sustainability in the Business Sector: A Fuzzy Multicriteria Decision-Making Model for Financial Leasing Company Selection of the Vietnamese SMEs

SAGE Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 215824402110360
Author(s):  
Fengsheng Chien ◽  
Chia-Nan Wang ◽  
Ka Yin Chau ◽  
Van Thanh Nguyen ◽  
Viet Tinh Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Interest Rates ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Multicriteria Decision Making ◽  
Primary Concern ◽  
Multicriteria Decision ◽  
Financial Leasing ◽  
Criteria Weights ◽  
Leasing Company ◽  
Selection Of

The uses and management of capital is extremely important to the operation of any businesses. However, not all businesses have available capital, so the use of loans in many different forms is always an effective solution in managing corporate finance. Accompanying with businesses, many financial leasing companies have implemented products and programs to lend money to businesses with low interest rates. So, choosing the best financial leasing company is a primary concern of businesses. To increase competitiveness, financial leasing companies often offer preferential conditions to attract businesses. Choosing the best financial leasing service to leasing is important and necessary to those businesses. Thus, the selection of a financial leasing company by small and medium enterprises benefits from the application of Multicriteria Decision-Making (MCDM) methods which allows the decision maker to consider various qualitative and quantitative criteria. In this article, the author applied Fuzzy Analytical Network Process (FANP) to calculate the related criteria weights of the financial leasing company selection problem of businesses. Then, the Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) is applied to rank the potential decision-making units. This research establishes one complete and efficient model for financial leasing company selection using FANP and TOPSIS methods. The proposed model is then applied into a real-world case study to demonstrate its feasibility.

Optimal ecodesign selection for biodiesel production in biorefineries through multicriteria decision making

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luisa Andrea González-Cruz ◽  
Luis Fernando Morales-Mendoza ◽  
Alberto Alfonso Aguilar-Lasserre ◽  
Catherine Azzaro-Pantel ◽  
Paulina Martínez-Isidro ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Multicriteria Decision Making ◽  
Biodiesel Production ◽  
Multicriteria Decision ◽  
Selection For

scholarly journals Approaches for multicriteria decision-making based on the hesitant fuzzy best–worst method

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jian Li ◽  
Li-li Niu ◽  
Qiongxia Chen ◽  
Zhong-xing Wang
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Programming Model ◽  
Multicriteria Decision Making ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Multicriteria Decision ◽  
Preference Relations ◽  
Fuzzy Preference Relations ◽  
Decision Making Models ◽  
Best Worst Method

AbstractHesitant fuzzy preference relations (HFPRs) have been widely applied in multicriteria decision-making (MCDM) for their ability to efficiently express hesitant information. To address the situation where HFPRs are necessary, this paper develops several decision-making models integrating HFPRs with the best worst method (BWM). First, consistency measures from the perspectives of additive/multiplicative consistent hesitant fuzzy best worst preference relations (HFBWPRs) are introduced. Second, several decision-making models are developed in view of the proposed additive/multiplicatively consistent HFBWPRs. The main characteristic of the constructed models is that they consider all the values included in the HFBWPRs and consider the same and different compromise limit constraints. Third, an absolute programming model is developed to obtain the decision-makers’ objective weights utilizing the information of optimal priority weight vectors and provides the calculation of decision-makers’ comprehensive weights. Finally, a framework of the MCDM procedure based on hesitant fuzzy BWM is introduced, and an illustrative example in conjunction with comparative analysis is provided to demonstrate the feasibility and efficiency of the proposed models.

scholarly journals The Evaluation of Mineral Resources Development Efficiency Based on Hesitant Fuzzy Linguistic Approach and Modified TODIM

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pu Li ◽  
Xudong Chen ◽  
Xinyi Qu ◽  
Qi Xu
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Multicriteria Decision Making ◽  
Mineral Resources ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Multicriteria Decision ◽  
Actual Evaluation ◽  
Panxi Area ◽  
Linguistic Approach ◽  
Fuzzy Linguistic ◽  
Resources Development

The evaluation of mineral resources development efficiency is a typical multicriteria decision-making issue. Meanwhile, due to the limited existing technology, there might be subjectivity, ambiguity, and inaccuracy of the measurement of the evaluation index of mineral resources development efficiency. In this paper, we, considering the incomplete information, use the hesitant fuzzy linguistic approach to describe the psychological hesitation and ambiguity of the decision-maker in the actual evaluation process and then construct the general model of the development efficiency evaluation of the mineral resources by using the hesitant fuzzy linguistic terms sets and modified TODIM. Finally, this paper takes the Panxi area as an example to study the development efficiency of vanadium-titanium magnetite. The results show that the hesitant fuzzy linguistic multicriteria decision-making (MCDM) approach can be implemented to mineral resources evaluation and resources management.

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