Issue:An application of the InterCriteria Analysis approach to health-related quality of life

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Title of paper: An application of the InterCriteria Analysis approach to health-related quality of life Author(s): Desislava Vankova Varna Medical University “Prof. Dr. P.Stoyanov”, Varna, Bulgaria vanko07@gmail.com Evdokia Sotirova Laboratory of Intelligent Systems, University “Prof. Dr. Assen Zlatarov”, “Prof. Yakimov” Blvd., Burgas 8010, Bulgaria esotirova@btu.bg Veselina Bureva Laboratory of Intelligent Systems, University “Prof. Dr. Assen Zlatarov”, “Prof. Yakimov” Blvd., Burgas 8010, Bulgaria vbureva@btu.bg Presented at: 11th International Workshop on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia, 30 Oct. 2015 Published in: "Notes on IFS", Volume 21, 2015, Number 5, pages 40–48 Download:  PDF (212  Kb, Info) Abstract: In this paper we present an application of the InterCriteria Analysis (ICA) approach to real data connected with health-related quality of life (HrQoL). The EQ-5D-3L questionnaire for measuring HrQoL for a representative sample of 1050 residents of Burgas is used. The aim is to analyze the correlations between the health indicators used by the questionnaire. Keywords: InterCriteria Analysis, Health-related quality of Life, EQ-5D-3L questionnaire, Intuitionistic fuzzy sets, Index matrix, Multicriteria decision making. AMS Classification: 03E72. References: Atanassov, K., V. Atanassova & G. Gluhchev (2015) InterCriteria Analysis: Ideas and problems, Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets, 21(1), 81–88. Atanassov, K. (2012) On Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets Theory, Springer, Berlin. Atanassov, K. (2014) Index Matrices: Towards an Augmented Matrix Calculus. Studies in Computational Intelligence Series, Vol. 573, Springer, Cham. Atanassov, K., D. Mavrov & V. Atanassova (2014) Intercriteria Decision Making: A New Approach for Multicriteria Decision Making, Based on Index Matrices and Intui¬tionistic Fuzzy Sets. 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