On a multiplication and a theory of integration for belief and plausibility functions |
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Institution: | Institut für Medizinische Statistik und Dokumentation, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, West Germany |
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Abstract: | Belief and plausibility functions have been introduced as generalizations of probability measures, which abandon the axiom of additivity. It turns out that elementwise multiplication is a binary operation on the set of belief functions. If the set functions of the type considered here are defined on a locally compact and separable space X, a theorem by Choquet ensures that they can be represented by a probability measure on the space containing the closed subsets of X, the so-called basic probability assignment. This is basic for defining two new types of integrals. One of them may be used to measure the degree of non-additivity of the belief or plausibility function. The other one is a generalization of the Lebesgue integral. The latter is compared with Choquet's and Sugeno's integrals for non-additive set functions. |
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