1. Modeling Preferences
2. Objectives
3. Historical Basis
4. What is a Model of Values?
5. Mathematical Model
6. Why Model Preferences?
7. Misleading Numbers
8. Severity Index for AIDS
9. Step 1. Would It Help?
10. Step 2. Select Attributes
11. Dialogue for Soliciting Attributes
12. Step 2. Start with Examples
13. Step 2. Ask Directly
14. Step 2. Use Hirearchy
15. Step 2. Advice on Behavioral Aspects
16. Step 2. Summary
17. Step 3. Do It Again
18. Attributes for Severity of AIDS
19. Step 4. Set Attribute Levels
20. Dialogue for Soliciting Attribute Levels
21. Levels for Skin Infection
22. Step 5. Assign Values to Single Attributes
23. Dialogure for Values of Single Attributes
24. Assigned Values to “Skin Infection” Attribute
25. Step 6. Choose an Aggregation Rule
26. Step 7. Estimate Ranks
27. Dialogue for Assessment of Attribute Ranks
28. Step 7. Estimate Weights
29. Dialogue for Estimating Weights
30. Final Index
31. Step 8. Evaluate the Model
32. Accuracy of the Severity Index for AIDS
33. Take Home Lesson