Towards a frequentist theory of upper and lower probability

DOI10.1214/aos/1176345868zbMath0488.62004OpenAlexW2044864346WikidataQ29037058 ScholiaQ29037058MaRDI QIDQ1166200

Publication date: 1982

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/aos/1176345868

zbMATH Keywords

independence non-additive probability upper and lower probability propensities interval-valued probability Bernoulli theorem frequentist theory unstable relative frequencies

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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