Generation, combination and extension of random set approximations to coherent lower and upper probabilities

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 85, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 89-101

  Hall, Jim W ^a   Lawry, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coherent lower and upper probabilities; Dempster Shafer theory; Iterative rescaling method; M bius inversion; P Box; Random set theory

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; FUNCTIONS; FUZZY SETS; ITERATIVE METHODS; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES;

COHERENT LOWER AND UPPER PROBABILITIES; DEMPSTER SHAFER THEORY; ITERATIVE RESCALING METHOD; MÖBIUS INVERSION; P-BOX; RANDOM SET THEORY;

SET THEORY;

EID: 2642574240     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2004.03.005     Document Type: Conference Paper

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