譯文（字數 4955）：

層次分析法（AHP）是一款幫助人們處理復雜的決定的結構完整技術。而不是一個“正確”的處方決策,提出了層次分析法的人。數學家們普遍認為是由托馬斯·l . 薩蒂在二十世紀七十年代提出的。運用層次分析法（AHP）提供了全面的和理性的框架,為構建和量化問題,對代表它的元素時,有關那些元素總體目標、,并且評估可能的解決方案。它被應用于政府、商業、工業、醫療保健和教育等全世界范圍的各種各樣的決策情況中。………………

原文（字符數 15460）：

外文出處： TL Saaty - Encyclopedia of Biostatistics, 2005 - Wiley Online Library

Analytic Hierarchy Process

The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is a structured technique for helping people deal with complex decisions. Rather than prescribing a "correct" decision, the AHP helps people to determine one. Based on mathematics and human psychology, it was developed by Thomas L. Saaty in the 1970s and has been extensively studied and refined since then. The AHP provides a comprehensive and rational framework for structuring a problem, for representing and quantifying its elements, for relating those elements to overall goals, and for evaluating alternative solutions. It is used throughout the world in a wide variety of decision situations, in fields such as government, business, industry, healthcare, and education.………………