Research Article
An Analysis of Factors Influencing Accidents outside Urban Areas in Sistan and Baluchestan Province
Table 3
Saaty’s 1–9 scale of pairwise comparisons.
| Intensity of importance | Definition | Explanation |
| 1 | Equal importance | Two activities contribute equally to the objective | 3 | Moderate importance | Experience and judgment slightly favor one activity over another | 5 | Strong importance | Experience and judgment strongly favor one activity over another | 7 | Very strong | An activity is favored very strongly over another | 9 | Extreme importance | The evidence favoring one activity over another is of the highest possible order of affirmation | 2, 4, 6, 8 | Intermediate values | Intermediate values between the two adjacent judgments |
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