Multicriteria ordering and ranking: partial orders, ambiguities and applied issues * Estimation of the preference relation on the basis of medians from pairwise comparisons

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The problem of estimation of the weak preference relation, with extension to partial order, on the basis of multiple pairwise comparisons with random errors is investigated. The estimators are based on the idea of the nearest adjoining order - NAO (see Slater, 1961). Two approaches are examined: comparisons indicating direction of preference and comparisons indicating difference of ranks. The properties of the estimators are based on distribution of median from comparisons and some probabilistic inequalities.

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