A statistical viewpoint on the theory of evidence
Hummel, R.A.
Landy, M.S.
New York Univ., NY;
This paper appears in: Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on
Publication Date: Mar 1988
Volume: 10,
Issue: 2
On page(s): 235-247
ISSN: 0162-8828
References Cited: 33
CODEN: ITPIDJ
INSPEC Accession Number: 3144002
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/34.3885
Current Version Published: 2002-08-06
Abstract
The authors provide a perspective and interpretation regarding the
Dempster-Shafer theory of evidence that regards the combination formulas
as statistics of the opinions of experts. This is done by introducing
spaces with binary operations that are simpler to interpret or simpler
to implement than the standard combination formula, and showing that
these spaces can be mapped homomorphically onto the Dempster-Shafer
theory-of-evidence space. The experts in the space of
opinions-of-experts combine information in a Bayesian fashion.
Alternative spaces for the combination of evidence suggested by this
viewpoint are presented
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