Transitivity of fuzzy preference relations – an empirical study
Fuzzy Sets and SystemsPublished 1 March 2001
Zbigniew Świtalski
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It is shown that human preferences, when represented by fuzzy relations, may violate transitivity and an index of transitivity is defined.
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Based on an experiment we show that human preferences, when represented by fuzzy relations, may violate transitivity. We define an index of transitivity and compute the degree to which the transitivity is violated.
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