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MACBETH is an interactive approach for cardinal measurement of judgments about the degrees to which the elements of a finite set A possess a property P. The name MACBETH, Measuring Attractiveness by a Categorical Based Evaluation Tech nique, comes from the fact that we conceived our approach with the aim of facilitating the measurement of (degrees of) attractiveness in decision processes. Nevertheless, MACBETH can also be applied to measure other properties in domains of knowledge others than Decision Sciences, such as in Psychophysics or in Social Sciences.
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Bana e Costa, C.A., Vansnick, JC. (1995). General Overview of the Macbeth Approach. In: Pardalos, P.M., Siskos, Y., Zopounidis, C. (eds) Advances in Multicriteria Analysis. Nonconvex Optimization and Its Applications, vol 5. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2383-0_6
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