A Comparison of Methods for Transforming Belief Function Models to Probability Models

Cobb, Barry R.; Shenoy, Prakash P.

dc.contributor.author	Cobb, Barry R.
dc.contributor.author	Shenoy, Prakash P.
dc.date.accessioned	2004-12-15T16:44:13Z
dc.date.available	2004-12-15T16:44:13Z
dc.date.issued	2003-07
dc.identifier.citation	Cobb, B. R. and P. P. Shenoy (2003), "A Comparison of Methods for Transforming Belief Function Models to Probability Models," in T. D. Nielsen and N. L. Zhang (eds.), Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence No. 2711, pp. 255--266, Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
dc.identifier.isbn	3-540-40494-5
dc.identifier.issn	0302-9743
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1808/155
dc.description	This 12-pp paper is extracted from a longer unpublished working paper: "On Transforming Belief Function Models to Probability Models," School of Business Working Paper No. 293, July 2003, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS.
dc.description.abstract	Recently, we proposed a new method called the plausibility transformation method to convert a belief function model to an equivalent probability model. In this paper, we compare the plausibility transformation method with the pignistic transformation method. The two transformation methods yield qualitatively di®erent probability models. We argue that the plausibility transformation method is the correct method for translating a belief function model to an equivalent probability model that maintains belief function semantics.
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dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	Springer-Verlag
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence;No. 2711
dc.subject	Dempster-Shafer belief function theory
dc.subject	Pignistic transformation method
dc.subject	Plausibility transformation method
dc.subject	Transforming belief function models to probability models
dc.title	A Comparison of Methods for Transforming Belief Function Models to Probability Models
dc.type	Book chapter
kusw.oastatus	na
dc.identifier.orcid	https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8425-896X
kusw.oapolicy	This item does not meet KU Open Access policy criteria.
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