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)