Random and fuzzy sets in coarse data analysis

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 70-85

  Nguyen, Hung T ^a   Wu, Berlin ^b  

^a NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CHENGCHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Coarse data analysis; Fuzzy sets; Random fuzzy sets; Random sets

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; SET THEORY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

COARSE DATA ANALYSIS; FUZZY STATISTICS; RANDOM FUZZY SETS; RANDOM SETS;

FUZZY SETS;

EID: 33750345703     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2006.04.016     Document Type: Article

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