Statistical reasoning with set-valued information: Ontic vs. epistemic views

International Journal of Approximate Reasoning

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1502-1518

  Couso, Inés ^a   Dubois, Didier ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

Evidence theory; Fuzzy sets; Imprecise probability; Incomplete information; Possibility theory; Random sets

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EVIDENCE THEORIES; IMPRECISE PROBABILITIES; INCOMPLETE INFORMATION; POSSIBILITY THEORY; RANDOM SET;

FUZZY SETS;

EID: 84905124185     PISSN: 0888613X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijar.2013.07.002     Document Type: Conference Paper

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