Risk of Falling in Older Women II

Laura Armas (), Joan Lappe (), Maureen Boyce (), Mark Byrne (), Asia A. Inagaki (), Shih-Chuan Cheng (), Davender S. Malik () and John N. Mordeson ()
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Laura Armas: Osteoporosis Research Center, Creighton University Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68178, USA
Joan Lappe: Osteoporosis Research Center, Creighton University Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68178, USA
Maureen Boyce: Political Science Department, Creighton University, Omaha, NE 68178, USA
Mark Byrne: Osteoporosis Research Center, Creighton University Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68178, USA
Asia A. Inagaki: Department of Mathematics, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska 68178, USA
Shih-Chuan Cheng: Department of Mathematics, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska 68178, USA
Davender S. Malik: Department of Mathematics, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska 68178, USA
John N. Mordeson: Department of Mathematics, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska 68178, USA

New Mathematics and Natural Computation (NMNC), 2015, vol. 11, issue 03, 217-227

Abstract: We examine the five methods for determining the degree of the risk of falling in older women. These five methods are the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), the Guiasu method, the Yen method, the set-valued statistical method, and the Dempster–Shafer method. We consider the weight of importance of the experts involved. We show that the coefficients of the factors for the risk of falling for the AHP equation may be different than those determined by the weighted AHP method, but that they remain exactly the same for the Guiasu, Yen, and set-valued statistical methods. We also determine conditions under which the coefficients of the factors are the same for the weighted AHP, Guiasu, Yen, and set-valued statistical methods.

Keywords: Risk of falling; serum 25-OHD level; medication use; history of fractures; age; AHP method; Guiasu method; Yen method (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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