Languages and designs for probability judgment

Glenn Shafer, Amos Tversky

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Abstract

Theories of subjective probability are viewed as formal languages for analyzing evidence and expressing degrees of belief. This article focuses on two probability language, the Bayesian language and the language of belief functions [199]. We describe and compare the semantics (i.e., the meaning of the scale) and the syntax (i.e., the formal calculus) of these languages. We also investigate some of the designs for probability judgment afforded by the two languages.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationClassic Works of the Dempster-Shafer Theory of Belief Functions
EditorsRoland R. Yager, Liping Liu
Pages345-374
Number of pages30
DOIs
StatePublished - 2008
Externally publishedYes

Publication series

NameStudies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing
Volume219
ISSN (Print)1434-9922

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Computer Science (miscellaneous)
  • Computational Mathematics

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