A Mathematical Theory of Evidence /

A Mathematical Theory of Evidence / / Glenn Shafer.

Both in science and in practical affairs we reason by combining facts only inconclusively supported by evidence. Building on an abstract understanding of this process of combination, this book constructs a new theory of epistemic probability. The theory draws on the work of A. P. Dempster but diverg...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
VerfasserIn:
Shafer, Glenn,
MitwirkendeR:
Dempster, A. P.,
Shafer, Glenn,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]
©1976
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (314 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • FOREWORD
  • PREFACE
  • CONTENTS
  • CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION
  • CHAPTER 2. DEGREES OF BELIEF
  • CHAPTER 3. DEMPSTER'S RULE OF COMBINATION
  • CHAPTER 4. SIMPLE AND SEPARABLE SUPPORT FUNCTIONS
  • CHAPTER 5. THE WEIGHTS OF EVIDENCE
  • CHAPTER 6. COMPATIBLE FRAMES OF DISCERNMENT
  • CHAPTER 7. SUPPORT FUNCTIONS
  • CHAPTER 8. THE DISCERNMENT OF EVIDENCE
  • CHAPTER 9. QUASI SUPPORT FUNCTIONS
  • CHAPTER 10. CONSONANCE
  • CHAPTER 11. STATISTICAL EVIDENCE
  • CHAPTER 12. THE DUAL NATURE OF PROBABLE REASONING
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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