Incoherence correction strategies in statistical matching

International Journal of Approximate Reasoning

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1124-1136

  Brozzi, Alessandro ^a   Capotorti, Andrea ^a   Vantaggi, Barbara ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Incoherence; Inference; Specialized discrepancy measure; Statistical matching

Indexed keywords

CORRECTION METHOD; DATA SOURCE; ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLES; IMPRECISE PROBABILITIES; INCOHERENCE; INFERENCE; LOGICAL CONSTRAINTS; PROBABILITY EVALUATION; SIMULATION STUDIES; SPECIALIZED DISCREPANCY MEASURE; STATISTICAL MATCHING;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84866041303     PISSN: 0888613X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijar.2012.06.009     Document Type: Conference Paper

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