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  1. Setting Up Roles with Groups

    Setting up roles with groups is a very flexible and powerful method, but somewhat more complex. Every participant belongs to a Participant Group called "All Participants." The All Participants group initially has an "allow" role for all cells as s...
  2. Create New Model

    Create new models to begin new decisions. Click the New Model  button to create a new Comparion model.  Depending on the model you will create, you can select from the Default Option Sets dropdown: Checking the " Use workgroup wording...
  3. Frequently Asked Questions

  4. Do you have basic troubleshooting techniques?

    Here are common troubleshooting techniques that often help. Try a hard refresh.  Browsers store cached versions of web pages to speed up your experience.  However, sometimes this causes you to view an older version of a site or application.  If...
  5. What is Define Model?

    is the first step in the decision process where we "structure" a decision model by identifying objectives, alternatives, and participants, and assigning roles to participants for providing judgments or data.  After structuring the hierarchy of ob...
  6. Can inconsistency ratio be measured for multiple participants or groups?

    Every measure of inconsistency is for one participant and one cluster of judgments.  Inconsistency cannot  be summed across multiple participants or clusters. The inconsistency ratio is useful for finding instances where the participant may not ha...
  7. When I average participant priorities, why does it not agree with overall priorities?

    Comparion computes the eigenvector of the judgments (not the priorities) across the selected participants to calculate combined priorities. There is no native spreadsheet function to do this -- this is what Comparion does.   For the combined prio...
  8. Using the Rich Text Editor

    Comparion includes a rich text editor for maintaining information documents.  Information Documents can be useful to document the analysis in order to justify the decision (transparency).  Information documents can also be used to inform evaluators ...
  9. Measurement Methods

  10. Measurement Methods for Evaluating Alternatives

    The same pairwise comparison technique used for measuring the priorities of the objectives can be used to measure the priorities representing the relative preference of alternatives with respect to each lowest level objective (also called covering...