Parameter estimation based on interval-valued belief structures

DOI10.1016/J.EJOR.2014.10.002MaRDI QIDQ2629700zbMATH OpenOpenAlexDBLPWikidataFDO

Authors Xinyang Deng, Yong Hu, Felix T. S. Chan, Sankaran Mahadevan, Yong Deng

Publication date 6 July 2016

Published in European Journal of Operational Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1402.3664

zbMATH Keywords

belief functionDempster-Shafer theoryinterval-valued belief structuresmaximum likelihood estimationparameter estimation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Point estimation (62F10) Applications of statistics to economics (62P20) Decision theory (91B06)

Abstract: Parameter estimation based on uncertain data represented as belief structures is one of the latest problems in the Dempster-Shafer theory. In this paper, a novel method is proposed for the parameter estimation in the case where belief structures are uncertain and represented as interval-valued belief structures. Within our proposed method, the maximization of likelihood criterion and minimization of estimated parameter's uncertainty are taken into consideration simultaneously. As an illustration, the proposed method is employed to estimate parameters for deterministic and uncertain belief structures, which demonstrates its effectiveness and versatility.

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