Practical representations of incomplete probabilistic knowledge

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 86-108

  Baudrit, C ^a   Dubois, D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ D'ORLÉANS   (France)

^b IRIT   (France)

Author keywords

Belief functions; Imprecise probabilities; Possibility theory; Probability boxes

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONS; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; RISK ASSESSMENT;

BELIEF FUNCTIONS; IMPRECISE PROBABILITIES; POSSIBILITY THEORY; PROBABILITY-BOXES;

KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION;

EID: 33750306703     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2006.02.009     Document Type: Article

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