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2007 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Interpreting Belief Functions as Dirichlet Distributions
verfasst von : Audun Jøsang, Zied Elouedi
Erschienen in: Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Traditional Dempster Shafer belief theory does not provide a simple method for judging the effect of statistical and probabilistic data on belief functions and vice versa. This puts belief theory in isolation from probability theory and hinders fertile cross-disciplinary developments, both from a theoretic and an application point of view. It can be shown that a bijective mapping exists between Dirichlet distributions and Dempster-Shafer belief functions, and the purpose of this paper is to describe this correspondence. This has three main advantages; belief based reasoning can be applied to statistical data, statistical and probabilistic analysis can be applied to belief functions, and it provides a basis for interpreting and visualizing beliefs for the purpose of enhancing human cognition and the usability of belief based reasoning systems.