Imprecise probabilities for representing ignorance about a parameter

International Journal of Approximate Reasoning

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 347-362

  Moral, Serafín ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Chance; Conditioning; Degree of belief; Ignorance; Imprecise probability; Learning

Indexed keywords

CHANCE; DEGREE OF BELIEF; IGNORANCE; IMPRECISE PROBABILITIES; LEARNING;

EXPERIMENTS; NATURAL GAS CONDITIONING; PROBABILISTIC LOGICS;

PROBABILITY;

EID: 84858448141     PISSN: 0888613X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijar.2010.12.001     Document Type: Article

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