AN ALGORITHM TO COMPUTE THE UPPER ENTROPY FOR ORDER-2 CAPACITIES

DOI10.1142/S0218488506003911zbMath1092.94015MaRDI QIDQ5291283

Serafín Moral, Joaquín Abellán

Publication date: 10 May 2006

Published in: International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

entropyuncertaintyimprecise probabilitiestheory of evidencelower probabilitiescredal setsorder-2 capacities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Measures of information, entropy (94A17) Statistical aspects of information-theoretic topics (62B10)

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