Computing expectations with continuous p-boxes: Univariate case

International Journal of Approximate Reasoning

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 778-798

  Utkin, Lev ^a   Destercke, Sebastien ^b  

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

^b UMR IATE   (France)

Author keywords

Expectations; Linear programming; p Boxes; Random sets

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS SPACES; EXPECTATIONS; MONOTONE FUNCTIONS; P-BOXES; PROBABILISTIC MODELS; RANDOM SETS; UNIVARIATE;

DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; LINEARIZATION; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; RISK ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY FACTOR; SET THEORY;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 64249101591     PISSN: 0888613X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijar.2009.02.004     Document Type: Article

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