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Table 4 Properties of Regular Increasing Monotone (RIM) quantifiers

From: A multi-criteria spatial deprivation index to support health inequality analyses

Linguistic Quantifier (Q)

OWA weights ( v j )

Decision strategies

→0

At least one

v 1=1; v j =0, for all other order weights

Extremely optimistic

0,1

Few

*

Very optimistic

0,5

Some

*

Optimistic

1

Half

v j =1/n for all j

Neutral

2

Many

*

Pessimistic

10

Most

*

Very pessimistic

→∞

All

v n =1; v j =0, for all other order weights

Extremely pessimistic

  1. *These weights are problem-specific.