Measuring uncertainty and uncertainty-based information for imprecise probabilities

Annual Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society - NAFIPS

Volumn 3, Issue , 2001, Pages 1729-1734

  Klir, George J ^a  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; THEOREM PROVING; UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS;

COHERENT LOWER PROBABILITY; COHERENT UPPER PROBABILITY; IMPRECISE PROBABILITY;

FUZZY SETS;

EID: 0035792337     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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