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dempster-shafer theory

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.24 in modern English

Syllables
demp-ster-shafer- the-o-ry
IPA
37
Scrabble Score
20
Letters
6
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A general framework for reasoning with uncertainty, allowing the combining of evidence from different sources to arrive at a mathematical degree of belief that takes into account all the available evidence.

Uncountable

Etymology

Introduced by Arthur P. Dempster in the context of statistical inference, and later developed by Glenn Shafer into a general framework for modeling epistemic uncertainty.

Usage

Questions

What does dempster-shafer theory mean?
A general framework for reasoning with uncertainty, allowing the combining of evidence from different sources to arrive at a mathematical degree of belief that takes into account all the available evidence.
Where does dempster-shafer theory come from?
Introduced by Arthur P. Dempster in the context of statistical inference, and later developed by Glenn Shafer into a general framework for modeling epistemic uncertainty.

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