Ordinal ranking methods for multicriterion decision making
比较了Borda、Bernardo等五种序数排序方法，检验它们是否选出Condorcet胜者、满足Condorcet顺序和序贯独立性，并讨论在成本与运营效能分析中的应用。
Given multiple criteria and multiple alternatives, the goal is to aggregate the criteria information and obtain an overall ranking of alternatives. An ordinal ranking method requires only that the rank order of the alternatives be known for each criterion. We compare and illustrate the ordinal ranking methods devised by Borda, Bernardo, Cook and Seiford, Köhler, and Arrow and Raynaud. We show whether each method places the Condorcet winner (if it exists) in first place, ranks the alternatives according to the Condorcet order (if it exists), and satisfies two principles of sequential independence. We also consider the application of these methods to cost and operational effectiveness analyses (COEAs). © 1996 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.