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European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning and Uncertainty

ECSQARU 1993: Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning and Uncertainty pp 168–173Cite as

Weighting independent bodies of evidence

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The objective of this paper is to introduce a weighted combination of independent bodies of evidence which contains Hooper's, Dempster's, Bayes's, and Jeffrey's rules as special cases.

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  1. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, York University, M3J 1P3, North York, Ontario, Canada

    Silviu Guiasu

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Michael Clarke Rudolf Kruse Serafín Moral

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Guiasu, S. (1993). Weighting independent bodies of evidence. In: Clarke, M., Kruse, R., Moral, S. (eds) Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning and Uncertainty. ECSQARU 1993. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 747. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0028197

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