An informational distance for estimating the faithfulness of a possibility distribution, viewed as a family of probability distributions, with respect to data

DOI10.1016/j.ijar.2013.01.011zbMath1316.68191MaRDI QIDQ2353926

Henri Prade, Mathieu Serrurier

Publication date: 10 July 2015

Published in: International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijar.2013.01.011

zbMATH Keywords

possibility theory; probability-possibility transformation; informational distance

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

68T37: Reasoning under uncertainty in the context of artificial intelligence

62E17: Approximations to statistical distributions (nonasymptotic)

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