Pairwise counting: Difference between revisions
Clarify that not all methods that pass CW or CL use pairwise matrices.
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'''Pairwise counting''' is the process of considering a set of items, comparing one pair of items at a time, and for each pair counting the comparison results.
== Example ==
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* Number of voters who have no preference for B versus C
Often these counts are arranged in a ''pairwise comparison matrix''<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/?id=q2U8jd2AJkEC&lpg=PA6&pg=PA6|title=Democracy defended|last=Mackie, Gerry.|date=2003|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=0511062648|location=Cambridge, UK|pages=6|oclc=252507400}}</ref> or ''outranking matrix<ref>{{
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In cases where only some pairwise counts are of interest, those pairwise counts can be displayed in a table with fewer table cells.
==Notes==
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== References ==
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