Belief function representations of statistical evidence

DOI10.1214/aos/1176350603zbMath0645.62003OpenAlexW2019682202MaRDI QIDQ1103285

Peter Walley

Publication date: 1987

Published in: The Annals of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/aos/1176350603

zbMATH Keywords

independent observationslikelihood inferenceBayes ruleupper and lower probabilitiesDempster's rulefiducial inferencebelief-function model of parametric inferencecombining evidencecommonality function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01) Axioms; other general questions in probability (60A05)

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