Partial order investigation of multiple indicator systems using variance-based sensitivity analysis

Partial order tools can be used in multiple criteria analysis to prioritize and rank a set of objects. In this setting the starting point is generally a matrix Mnxk of k observed indicators on n objects. Given that indicators are measured at least at the ordinal level, from matrix M its corresponding partially ordered set - poset - is set up to form the basis of multi-criteria ranking. The partial order may be very complex even when the number...