Decision making under incomplete data using the imprecise Dirichlet model

4th International Symposium on Imprecise Probabilities and Their Applications, ISIPTA 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Utkin, L V ^a   Augustin, Th ^b  

^a SAINT PETERSBURG STATE FOREST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Belief functions; Coarse data; Decision making; Hodges Lehmann criterion; Imperfect measurements; Imprecise Dirichlet model; Imprecise probabilities; Incomplete data; Interval probability; Interval statistical models; Predictive probabilities; Set valued observations; Statistical data

Indexed keywords

DECISION THEORY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BELIEF FUNCTION; COARSE DATA; HODGES-LEHMANN CRITERIONS; IMPRECISE DIRICHLET MODEL; IMPRECISE PROBABILITIES; INCOMPLETE DATA; INTERVAL PROBABILITY; SET-VALUED; STATISTICAL DATAS;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 33846181118     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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