Equivalence of methods for uncertainty propagation of real-valued random variables

DOI10.1016/j.ijar.2003.07.013zbMath1095.68118OpenAlexW1974961081MaRDI QIDQ707243

Helen M. Regan, Scott A. Ferson, Daniel J. Berleant

Publication date: 9 February 2005

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijar.2003.07.013

zbMATH Keywords

Dempster-Shafer belief functionsDependency boundsInterval probabilitiesUncertainty propagation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Reasoning under uncertainty in the context of artificial intelligence (68T37)

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Uses Software

• Statool
• RAMAS Risk Calc

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