Learning about a categorical latent variable under prior near-ignorance

ISIPTA 2007 - Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Imprecise Probability: Theories and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 357-364

  Piatti, Alberto ^a   Zaffalon, Marco ^a   Trojani, Fabio ^b   Hutter, Marcus ^c  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Imprecise probabilities; Latent and manifest variables; Observational processes; Prior near ignorance; Vacuous beliefs

Indexed keywords

IMPRECISE PROBABILITIES; LATENT AND MANIFEST VARIABLES; LATENT VARIABLE; NEAR-IGNORANCE; PRIOR IGNORANCE; STATISTICAL INFERENCE; STATISTICAL PROBLEMS; VACUOUS BELIEFS;

EQUIVALENCE CLASSES; PROBABILISTIC LOGICS;

PROBABILITY;

EID: 84858444242     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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