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The Assumptions Behind Dempster's Rule

Nic Wilson
UAI 1993 pp. 527-534
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Abstract

This paper examines the concept of a combination rule for belief functions. It is shown that two fairly simple and apparently reasonable assumptions determine Dempster's rule, giving a new justification for it.

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Wilson. "The Assumptions Behind Dempster's Rule." Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 1993.

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[Wilson. "The Assumptions Behind Dempster's Rule." Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 1993.](https://mlanthology.org/uai/1993/wilson1993uai-assumptions/)

BibTeX

@inproceedings{wilson1993uai-assumptions,
  title     = {{The Assumptions Behind Dempster's Rule}},
  author    = {Wilson, Nic},
  booktitle = {Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence},
  year      = {1993},
  pages     = {527-534},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/uai/1993/wilson1993uai-assumptions/}
}