Research Article

A Hybrid Fuzzy AHP/VIKOR Approach to Funding Strategy Selection for Advanced Prosthetic and Orthotic Medical Devices in Low-Income Countries: A Case of Pakistan

Table 1

Linguistic scale for pairwise comparison criteria.

Fuzzy valueSubjective descriptionFuzzy scale number

1Equal(1, 1, 1)
2Weak advantage(1, 2, 3)
3Not bad(2, 3, 4)
4Preferable(3, 4, 5)
5Good(4, 5, 6)
6Fairly good(5, 6, 7)
7Very good(6, 7, 8)
8Absolute(7, 8, 9)
9Perfect(8, 9, 10)