Perspectives on the theory and practice of belief functions

By Glenn Shafer. 1990

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Citations in the corpus

• The Boxer, the Wrestler, and the Coin Flip (2006, methodology): “Once again, we would not use this example to dismiss belief functions [see Shafer (1990) for some background on their theory and application], but this example does suggest that the belief-function modeling of ignorance is potentially fragile.”
• Degrees of Belief (2009, background): “Shafer names the English cleric George Hooper (1640–1727) [99], but for Pearson, the true author is the English statistician Edmund Halley (1656–1742) [83].”
• Sensitivity Analysis with Mixture of Epistemic and Aleatory Uncertainties (2007, background): “Under these conditions, belief and plausibility measures can be considered as the lower and upper bounds of a probability measure [40].”