Note: [1] The work on Sect. 2 and Sect. 3 is supported by the project of Asen Zlatarov University under Ref. No. NIX-423/2019 “Innovative methods for extracting knowledge management”. The work on Sect. 4 and Sect. 5 is supported by the Ministry of Education and Science under the Programme “Young scientists and postdoctoral students”, approved by DCM # 577/17.08.2018.
Abstract: The intuitionistic fuzzy InterCriteria analysis (ICrA) is a new method for correlation analysis, which is based on the concepts of index matrices (IMs) and intuitionistic fuzzy sets (IFSs), aiming at detecting of the dependencies between pairs of rating criteria in both clear and uncertain environments. In the present paper, which is an extension of [39], our aim is to extend ICrA to multidimensional ICrA (n-D ICrA) under intuitionistic fuzzy environment for situations where the evaluations of the objects against multidimensional criteria are completely unknown and to show its efficiency through an application in identifying correlations between pairs of criteria when referred to actual data gathered through estimates of a restaurant’s kitchen staff over a three-year period in Bulgaria. We also present a comparative analysis of the correlations between the evaluated criteria of the kitchen staff, on the basis the application of the correlation methods of ICrA, Pearson (PCA), Spearman (SCA) and Kendall (KCA). The four-correlation analysis yielded very similar correlation coefficients, but only the ICrA can be applied to intuitionistic fuzzy evaluations. It is observed that considerable divergence of the ICrA results from those obtained by the other classical correlation analyzes, is only found when the input data contains mistakes.
