assignAlternativesToCategoriesByThresholds {MCDA}

Assign alternatives to categories according to thresholds.

Description

Assign alternatives to categories according to thresholds representing the lower bounds of the categories.

Usage

assignAlternativesToCategoriesByThresholds(
  alternativesScores,
  categoriesLowerBounds,
  alternativesIDs = NULL,
  categoriesIDs = NULL
)

Arguments

alternativesScores

Vector representing the overall scores of the alternatives. The elements are named according to the IDs of the alternatives.

categoriesLowerBounds

Vector containing the lower bounds of the categories. An alternative is assigned to a category if it's score is higher or equal to the lower bound of the category, and strictly lower to the lower bound of the category above.

alternativesIDs

Vector containing IDs of alternatives, according to which the datashould be filtered.

categoriesIDs

Vector containing IDs of categories, according to which the data should be filtered.

Value

The function returns a vector containing the assignments of the alternatives to the categories.

Examples

# the separation threshold

epsilon <-0.05

# the performance table

performanceTable <- rbind(
  c(3,10,1),
  c(4,20,2),
  c(2,20,0),
  c(6,40,0),
  c(30,30,3))

rownames(performanceTable) <- c("RER","METRO1","METRO2","BUS","TAXI")

colnames(performanceTable) <- c("Price","Time","Comfort")

# ranks of the alternatives

alternativesAssignments <- c("good","medium","medium","bad","bad")

names(alternativesAssignments) <- row.names(performanceTable)

# criteria to minimize or maximize

criteriaMinMax <- c("min","min","max")

names(criteriaMinMax) <- colnames(performanceTable)

# number of break points for each criterion

criteriaNumberOfBreakPoints <- c(3,4,4)

names(criteriaNumberOfBreakPoints) <- colnames(performanceTable)

# ranks of the categories

categoriesRanks <- c(1,2,3)

names(categoriesRanks) <- c("good","medium","bad")

x<-UTADIS(performanceTable, criteriaMinMax, criteriaNumberOfBreakPoints, 
            alternativesAssignments, categoriesRanks,0.1)

npt <- applyPiecewiseLinearValueFunctionsOnPerformanceTable(x$valueFunctions, 
                                                             performanceTable)

scores <- weightedSum(npt, c(1,1,1))

# add a lower bound for the "bad" category

lbs <- c(x$categoriesLBs,0)

names(lbs) <- c(names(x$categoriesLBs),"bad")

assignments<-assignAlternativesToCategoriesByThresholds(scores,lbs)