The Dempster-Shafer calculus for statisticians
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DOI10.1016/j.ijar.2007.03.004zbMath1274.62053OpenAlexW2039066264WikidataQ29040291 ScholiaQ29040291MaRDI QIDQ2270403
Publication date: 18 March 2010
Published in: International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (Search for Journal in Brave)
Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijar.2007.03.004
state spacestatistical significancePoisson modelbelief functionsDempster-Shafer calculusdull null hypothesisjoin-tree computation
Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01) Reasoning under uncertainty in the context of artificial intelligence (68T37) Axioms; other general questions in probability (60A05)
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