Certainty Factors
Bayes’ formulas are complex enough and definitely not adequate to human’s brain reasoning activities. Certainty factors theory is an alternative to Bayesian reasoning – when reliable statistical information is not available or the independence of evidence cannot be assumed – and introduces a certainty factors calculus based on the human expert heuristics.
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Roventa, E., Spircu, T. (2009). Certainty Factors Theory. In: Management of Knowledge Imperfection in Building Intelligent Systems. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, vol 227. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77463-1_6
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