A new consensus ranking approach for correlated ordinal information based on Mahalanobis distance

摘要

We investigate from a global point of view the existence of cohesiveness among experts' opinions. We address this general issue from three basic essentials: the management of experts' opinions when they are expressed by ordinal information; the measurement of the degree of dissensus among such opinions; and the achievement of a group solution that conveys the minimum dissensus to the experts' group.