Unifying practical uncertainty representations - I: Generalized p-boxes

International Journal of Approximate Reasoning

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 649-663

  Destercke, S ^a,b   Dubois, D ^b   Chojnacki, E ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RADIOPROTECTION ET DE SÛRETÉ NUCLÉAIRE IRSN   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

Author keywords

Clouds; Imprecise probability representations; p Boxes; Possibility theory; Probability intervals; Random sets

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; KETONES; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES; SET THEORY;

IMPRECISE PROBABILITY REPRESENTATIONS; P-BOXES; POSSIBILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; POSSIBILITY THEORY; RANDOM SETS; UNCERTAINTY REPRESENTATIONS;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 55649125042     PISSN: 0888613X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijar.2008.07.003     Document Type: Article

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