Incoherence correction strategies in statistical matching

ISIPTA 2011 - Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Imprecise Probability: Theories and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 109-118

  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

DISCREPANCY MEASURES; IMPRECISE PROBABILITIES; INCOHERENCE; INCOHERENCE CORRECTIONS; INFERENCE; LOGICAL RELATIONS; PROBABILITY EVALUATION; STATISTICAL MATCHING;

PROBABILITY;

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