Natural extension as a limit of regular extensions

ISIPTA 2009 - Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Imprecise Probability: Theories and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 327-336

  Miranda, Enrique ^a   Zaffalon, Marco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^b DALLE MOLLE INSTITUTE FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IDSIA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Coherent lower previsions; Desirable gambles; Natural extension; Regular extension; Weak and strong coherence

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LOWER PREVISIONS; CONSISTENCY CRITERIA; CREDAL SETS; DESIRABLE GAMBLES; LOWER PREVISION; NATURAL EXTENSION; REGULAR EXTENSION;

PROBABILITY;

EID: 75749146007     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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