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

International Journal of Approximate Reasoning

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-30

  Regan, Helen M ^a,b   Ferson, Scott ^b   Berleant, Daniel ^c  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b APPLIED BIOMATHEMATICS   (United States)

^c Iowa State University of Science and Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Dempster Shafer belief functions; Dependency bounds; Interval probabilities; Uncertainty propagation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUNCTIONS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY;

DEMPSTER-SHAFER BELIEF FUNCTIONS; DEPENDENCY BOUNDS; INTERVAL PROBABILITIES; UNCERTAINTY PROPAGATION;

RANDOM PROCESSES;

EID: 1542505007     PISSN: 0888613X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijar.2003.07.013     Document Type: Article

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