Probabilistic coherence and proper scoring rules

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Volumn 55, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 4786-4792

  Predd, Joel B ^a   Seiringer, Robert ^b   Lieb, Elliott H ^b   Osherson, Daniel N ^b   Poor, H Vincent ^c   Kulkarni, Sanjeev R ^c  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

Coherence; Probability; Scoring rule

Indexed keywords

BREGMAN DIVERGENCES; COHERENCE; PROPER SCORING RULES; SCORING RULE;

THEOREM PROVING;

EID: 70349632395     PISSN: 00189448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIT.2009.2027573     Document Type: Article

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