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A Comparison of Five Methods for Combining Multiple Criteria into a Single Composite

Rodney D. Fralicx

Stanard & Associates

Nambury S. Raju

Illinois Institute of Technology

Five weighting methods for combining multiple criteria into a single composite were evaluated on 117 bank tellers. It was found that four out of the five methods (Management Weights, Equal Weights, Unit Weights and Factor Weights) yielded nearly identical results, whereas the fifth method (Canonical Weights) correlated almost zero with the other methods.

Educational and Psychological Measurement, Vol. 42, No. 3, 823-827 (1982)
DOI: 10.1177/001316448204200315
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