Talk:Dempster-Shafer theory

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Does anyone know if this stat has been implemented in a Arc9.+ GIS environemnt?

Is this a typo? "This means that it is possible that the cat is alive (should be dead??), up to 0.8, since the remaining probability mass of 0.3 is essentially "indeterminate," meaning that the cat could either be dead or alive."

I think that giving the vocabulary is important: - X should be called the Frame of reference - m should be called the Basic Belief Assignment.

The idea that belief and plausibility are respectively lower and upper bounds on some real, unknown probability is not unanimously accepted and should be presented as such.

Dempster's rule is usually denoted with . It is worth saying that it is commutative, associative and admits vacuous beliefs as identity.