Article ID: | iaor20112586 |
Volume: | 44 |
Issue: | 4 |
Start Page Number: | 323 |
End Page Number: | 343 |
Publication Date: | Oct 2010 |
Journal: | RAIRO - Operations Research |
Authors: | Martin A, Jousselme A -L, Dor P -E, Abi-Zeid I, Maupin P |
Keywords: | statistics: distributions |
In this paper, we propose a new method to generate a continuous belief functions from a multimodal probability distribution function defined over a continuous domain. We generalize Smets' approach in the sense that focal elements of the resulting continuous belief function can be disjoint sets of the extended real space of dimension