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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 January 2025
The first contribution of this paper is to demonstrate that the paired-comparison model may be derived from a variety of different initial assumptions about the nature of paired comparisons, some of these assumptions appearing to the author to be more appropriate to a description of the preference-decision process than others. The second contribution of this paper is to note that the generalization of the model to triple comparisons chosen earlier is not the one compatible with the Lehmann model even though it possesses other desirable properties. Limited numerical calculations suggest that both models for triple comparisons give comparable results in applications. Their asymptotic properties should be similar.
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