Table 7

Sensitivity of OPI rankings to alternative component weightings (cell entries are ranks; OPIk = Fkα × Nkβ × Vkγ)

Failure clusterEqual (1/1/1)Freq.↑ (2/1/1)Neg.↑ (1/2/1)Vis.↑ (1/1/2)Freq.↓ (0.5/1/1)Sev. (0.5/2/1)
Comfort & Cleanliness111114
Staff & Communication232233
Ticketing & Refunds325355
Delay & Disruption443542
Safety & Security554421
Crowding & Capacity666666
Accessibility777777
Spearman ρ vs. baseline1.0000.9640.8930.9640.7500.393

Note(s): Cell entries are ranks. Column headings denote the exponent vector (α/β/γ): Equal = equal weighting; Freq.↑ = frequency-weighted; Neg.↑ = negativity-weighted; Vis.↑ = visibility-weighted; Freq.↓ = frequency-discounted; Sev. = severity-oriented. Ranks are derived from the max-normalized components reported in Table 6. ρ is the Spearman rank correlation between the continuous index values under each specification and those under the equal-weight baseline.

Source(s): Authors’ own work

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