The Dempster-Shafer calculus for statisticians

DOI10.1016/J.IJAR.2007.03.004zbMATH Open1274.62053OpenAlexW2039066264WikidataQ29040291 ScholiaQ29040291MaRDI QIDQ2270403FDOQ2270403

Authors: Arthur P. Dempster 

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

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zbMATH Keywords

Poisson modelbelief functionsstate spacestatistical significanceDempster-Shafer calculusdull null hypothesisjoin-tree computation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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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