Chapter 5. Special Theories of Imprecise Probabilities
Published Online: 7 NOV 2005
DOI: 10.1002/0471755575.ch5
Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Book Title
Uncertainty and Information: Foundations of Generalized Information Theory
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How to Cite
Klir, G. J. (2005) Special Theories of Imprecise Probabilities, in Uncertainty and Information: Foundations of Generalized Information Theory, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, USA. doi: 10.1002/0471755575.ch5
Publication History
- Published Online: 7 NOV 2005
- Published Print: 4 NOV 2005
ISBN Information
Print ISBN: 9780471748670
Online ISBN: 9780471755579
- Summary
- Chapter
Keywords:
- graded possibilities;
- Sugeno λ-measures;
- belief measures;
- plausibility measures;
- Dempster-Shafer theory;
- reachable interval-valued probability distributions
Summary
Several theories of imprecise probabilities are introduced. They include: the theory of graded possibilities, the theory based on λ-measures, Dempster-Shafer theory, and the theory based on reachable interval-valued probability distributions.