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  1. Comparion Sample Templates

    Templates contain the structure of the model but do not contain participant information, data, or results.  You can use these templates to create new models.  You can also create your own templates from the workgroup models list from the drop-do...
  2. Structuring

    In conformity with the second of the three AHP axioms originally proposed by Saaty, the elements of any cluster should be "homogeneous," meaning that they should differ in importance from one another by no more than an order of magnitude. This req...
  3. Validation exercises

    Brightness of Light Experiment Area Validation Experiment The relative areas of different geometric shapes (each within an order of magnitude) were derived from pairwise verbal judgments for shapes such as the following:  This experiment...
  4. Validating Experiments

    Every day, people face decisions in domains as diverse as choosing among shampoos, stocks, medical treatments, and friends.  When people have not learned what to do through trial and error, they need a suite of generally applicable decision-making s...
  5. Download Data Grid

    The  button is used to create a .xlsx file (readable in Excel) with four sections:  Datagrid Calculated Instructions The Math Explained Datagrid for All Participants:  The Datagrid for All Participants (see below) contains the:  The Cal...
  6. September 2, 2021

    September 2, 2021 | Version 6.2.2 (d0feafa7e7da) Enhancement Updates on the Comparion Help widget User Interface improvements (Help Library, Recommended, and Contact Us tabs) The entire Help Library accessible from the widget Suggest help arti...
  7. Politics, Governance and Control

    The ability for AHP to aggregate (synthesize) and filter (assign roles) is important for several reasons. Governance and Roles Power and control are distributed in organizations in a wide variety of ways.  An effective decision process must r...
  8. Simple tradeoffs

    Making decisions involves making tradeoffs  among objectives; this is a difficult and poorly understood aspect of decision making.  Decisions become difficult when they involve several competing objectives.  The greater the number of objectives, th...
  9. January 21, 2021

    January 21, 2021 | Version 6.1.3.41813 New Features/Enhancements  Password Complexity.  Be able to define the password complexity for the users.  When password complexity is enabled, a password requires at least one lowercase letter, an UPPERCASE...
  10. July 21, 2021

    July 21, 2021 | Version 6.2.2 (a2e9aa2343e0) Features and Enhancements Added Normalization (Unnormalized and Normalized) and Mode (Ideal/Distributive) options on the Datagrid page.  Note: The Distributive mode is only applicable for Normalized, t...