Modification of TOPSIS method to improve the results of performance evaluation of financial and credit institutions

In the last decade, multi-criteria decision making methods have been used extensively to evaluate multiple units with similar task descriptions. One of the most widely used methods, which is based on mathematical principles, is the TOPSIS method. ranking mechanism in TOPSIS method based on performance distance measurement is from positive ideal and negative ideal and the existence of Outlier-data can have a negative impact on the calculations. in this study the modification of TOPSIS method so that Be able to control Outlier-data, is on the agenda. For this purpose modified algorithm TOPSIS method is introduced. With the aim of validating the proposed algorithm, the performance of 1951 branches of agri-Bank in the case study section has been evaluated and the results have been compared with the standard TOPSIS method. Calculation of the modified TOPSIS method by considering different coefficients of data scatter control and examination of the correlation coefficients show that the modified TOPSIS method has been able to control Outlier data well.