Three-way decisions with probabilistic rough sets

Information Sciences

Volumn 180, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 341-353

  Yao, Yiyu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bayesian decision procedure; Classification; Decision theoretic rough sets; Hypothesis testing; Probabilistic rough sets; Three way decisions

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN DECISION PROCEDURE; CLASSIFICATION; DECISION-THEORETIC ROUGH SETS; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PROBABILISTIC ROUGH SETS; THREE-WAY DECISIONS;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; DECISION THEORY; FUZZY SETS; GAME THEORY; STATISTICAL TESTS;

ROUGH SET THEORY;

EID: 70449130467     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2009.09.021     Document Type: Article

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