Perspectives on the theory and practice of belief functions

DOI10.1016/0888-613X(90)90012-QzbMATH Open0714.62001MaRDI QIDQ751097FDOQ751097

Authors: Glenn Shafer 

Publication date: 1990

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

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• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 721700
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4070814
• Publication:4504064

zbMATH Keywords

independencerandom setsDempster-Shafer theorytheory of belief functionsmultivalued mappingsjoin treesinteractive systemsBayesian theory of subjective probability judgmentinner measureslower probabilitiesprobability propagation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01) Artificial intelligence (68T99)

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