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