The role of coherence for handling probabilistic evaluations and independence

Soft Computing

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 617-628

  Vantaggi, Barbara ^a  

^a Dipartimento di Metodi e Modelli Matematici   (Italy)

Author keywords

Coherent conditional probability assessment; Compatibility; Conditional independence

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOOLEAN ALGEBRA; COMPUTATION THEORY; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES; SET THEORY; THEOREM PROVING;

COHERENT CONDITIONAL PROBABILITY ASSESSMENT; COMPATIBILITY; CONDITIONAL INDEPENDENTS; PROBABILISTIC EVALUATIONS;

PROBABILISTIC LOGICS;

EID: 20844443077     PISSN: 14327643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00500-004-0407-2     Document Type: Article

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