The limitation of Bayesianism

Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 158, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 97-106

  Wang, Pei ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayes' Theorem; Conditioning; Ignorance; Jeffrey's rule; Revision; Sensitivity; Updating

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; INFORMATION SCIENCE; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS;

BAYE'S THEOREM; CONDITIONING; IGNORANCE; JEFFREY'S RULE; REVISION; SENSITIVITY; UPDATING;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 3142749910     PISSN: 00043702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.artint.2003.09.003     Document Type: Article

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