Tighter estimates for the posteriors of imprecise prior and conditional probabilities

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans.

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 820-825

  Salo, Ahti A ^a  

^a NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CONSTRAINT THEORY; INFORMATION THEORY; SET THEORY; VECTORS;

LINEAR INEQUALITY APPROXIMATIONS; POSTERIOR PROBABILITIES;

PROBABILITY;

EID: 0030289946     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3468.541340     Document Type: Article

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