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The Assumptions Behind Dempster's Rule

Artificial Intelligence 2013-03-08 v1

Abstract

This paper examines the concept of a combination rule for belief functions. It is shown that two fairly simple and apparently reasonable assumptions determine Dempster's rule, giving a new justification for it.

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@article{arxiv.1303.1518,
  title  = {The Assumptions Behind Dempster's Rule},
  author = {Nic Wilson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1303.1518},
  year   = {2013}
}

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Appears in Proceedings of the Ninth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI1993)

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