Likelihood-based belief function: justification and some extensions to low-quality data

DOI10.1016/j.ijar.2013.06.007zbMath1407.62097MaRDI QIDQ2509601

Thierry Denoeux

Publication date: 29 July 2014

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijar.2013.06.007

zbMATH Keywords

Dempster-Shafer theory; statistical inference; uncertain data; evidence theory; likelihood principle; partially relevant data

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

62F86: Parametric inference and fuzziness

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