Evidential-EM algorithm applied to progressively censored observations

DOI10.1007/978-3-319-08852-5_19MaRDI QIDQ5227377zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Kuang Zhou, Arnaud Martin, Quan Pan

Publication date 26 July 2019

Published in Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.01432

zbMATH Keywords

belief function theoryevidential-EMmixed-distributionreliability analysisuncertainty

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Reasoning under uncertainty in the context of artificial intelligence (68T37)

Abstract: Evidential-EM (E2M) algorithm is an effective approach for computing maximum likelihood estimations under finite mixture models, especially when there is uncertain information about data. In this paper we present an extension of the E2M method in a particular case of incom-plete data, where the loss of information is due to both mixture models and censored observations. The prior uncertain information is expressed by belief functions, while the pseudo-likelihood function is derived based on imprecise observations and prior knowledge. Then E2M method is evoked to maximize the generalized likelihood function to obtain the optimal estimation of parameters. Numerical examples show that the proposed method could effectively integrate the uncertain prior infor-mation with the current imprecise knowledge conveyed by the observed data.

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