Mathematical foundations for a theory of confidence structures

International Journal of Approximate Reasoning

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1003-1019

  Balch, Michael Scott ^a  

^a APPLIED BIOMATHEMATICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Cartesian product; Confidence distribution; Dempster Shafer; p Value; Random set

Indexed keywords

CARTESIAN PRODUCTS; CONFIDENCE DISTRIBUTION; DEMPSTER-SHAFER; P-VALUES; RANDOM SET;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; INFERENCE ENGINES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

SET THEORY;

EID: 84864453448     PISSN: 0888613X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijar.2012.05.006     Document Type: Article

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