Issue: 2025/Vol.35/No.4, Pages

A NEW AND SIMPLE METHOD TO GET THE PRIORITY VECTOR FOR RECIPROCAL MATRICES

Julio Benítez , Carlos Serra-Jiménez 

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Cite as: J. Benítez, C. Serra-Jiménez. A new and simple method to get the priority vector for reciprocal matrices. Operations Research and Decisions 2025: 35(4). DOI 10.37190/ord/205080

Abstract
A new optimization method is proposed to find the priority vector of a non-consistent reciprocal matrix, which leads to the solution of a constrained least squares problem, specially suited for large matrices. Two different approaches are used to solve this problem, the first approach by using the QR decomposition and a second approach by performing the singular value decomposition leading to simple solutions. In addition, a comparison of the proposed method with other methods, used in the consulted bibliography, is made to obtain the priority vector and finally an illustrative example is shown.

Keywords: AHP, comparison matrices, priority vector, least squares method

Received: 25 January 2024    Accepted: 13 May 2025
Published online: 22 May 2025