Decision Science in Olympic Games: An AHP Approach in Selecting the Highest Quality Gold Medals

Xiaojia Wang ()
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Xiaojia Wang: Hefei University of Technology

A chapter in LISS 2014, 2015, pp 1303-1309 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This study explores the potential of applying analytic hierarchy process (AHP) to quantify the values of gold, silver and bronze medals and use these values to compute the total value of the sports in order to determine which sports may be considered the highest quality ones in Olympic Games. It finds that each game has different characteristics and these factors also should be considered to interpret the medals won. A gold medal may have different meanings in two different categories of games.

Keywords: Olympic games; Sport; Gold medal; Highest quality; Analytic hierarchy process (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-43871-8_189

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