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In this paper we introduce the relative belief of singletons as a novel Bayesian approximation of a belief function. We discuss its nature in terms of degrees of belief under several different angles, and its applicability to different classes of belief functions.
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Cuzzolin, F. (2008). Semantics of the Relative Belief of Singletons. In: Huynh, VN., Nakamori, Y., Ono, H., Lawry, J., Kreinovich, V., Nguyen, H.T. (eds) Interval / Probabilistic Uncertainty and Non-Classical Logics. Advances in Soft Computing, vol 46. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77664-2_16
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