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Table 1 Scale used for pairwise comparisons in the analytic hierarchy process

From: Integrating expert knowledge in a GIS to optimize siting decisions for small-scale healthy food retail interventions

Intensity of importance

Definition

1

Equal importance

3

Moderately more important

5

Strongly more important

7

Very strongly more important

9

Extremely more important

2, 4, 6, 8

Intermediate values