Joint propagation of probability and possibility in risk analysis: Towards a formal framework

International Journal of Approximate Reasoning

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 82-105

  Baudrit, Cédric ^a   Couso, Inés ^b   Dubois, Didier ^a  

^a IRIT   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Fuzzy random variables; Independence; Possibility distributions; Random sets

Indexed keywords

FUZZY SETS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; RANDOM VARIABLES; RISK ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC MODELS;

FUZZY RANDOM VARIABLES; INDEPENDENCE ASSUMPTIONS; POSSIBILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM SETS;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 34247199459     PISSN: 0888613X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijar.2006.07.001     Document Type: Article

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