Original Article AN APPROACH FOR ACCEPTING/REJECTING CONSISTENCY OF ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS AS A CRITERION DETERMINING TECHNOLOGICAL VALUE OF EGYPTIAN COTTON

Two statistical approaches for accepting/rejecting consistency of analytic hierarchy process (AHP) were used in this paper. First approach was the traditional and follows Consistency Ratio (CR); second approach was the new and follows Random Index (RI). By the two approaches we had acceptance consistency in pair-wise reciprocal comparison in the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) as a quality criterion determining the technological value of cotton. The highest technological value belongs cotton variety Giza 87 (16.97) and the lowest value belongs cotton variety Giza 90 (12.87). That is accepted due to the increase of weights of the main determinant for technological value criterias, i.e. fiber length (UHML) and strength (FS). The high values of spearman and partial correlations of fiber length and strength with yarn strength verify the accuracy of these variables in modeling AHP. Values of partial correlation of micronaire value with yarn strength reveal the effect of yarn count of yarn strength. The effect of short fiber content on yarn strength seemed to be inter-correlated with other variables. Generally, partial correlation values verified the accuracy of weights fiber properties modeling AHP, except for fiber elongation which showed insignificant either correlation or partial correlation with yarn strength. Therefore, it is considerable to release fiber elongation of AHP equation in other run. © 2013 Universal Research Publications. All rights reserved