Constructing consonant belief functions from sample data using confidence sets of pignistic probabilities

DOI10.1016/j.ijar.2008.06.002zbMath1184.68499OpenAlexW2003447047MaRDI QIDQ2379336

Astride Aregui, Thierry Denoeux

Publication date: 19 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.2008.06.002

zbMATH Keywords

Dempster-Shafer theoryconfidence regionpossibility distributiontransferable belief modelevidence theorystatistical data

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Reasoning under uncertainty in the context of artificial intelligence (68T37) Agent technology and artificial intelligence (68T42)

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