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This chapter presents some practical estimation problems involving imprecision, including source localization, monitoring and prediction of an epidemic, localization using spatially referring natural language statements, and classification using the imprecise likelihood models.
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Ristic, B. (2013). Applications Involving Non-standard Measurements. In: Particle Filters for Random Set Models. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6316-0_3
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