BAYESIAN INFERENCE OF FUZZY PROBABILITIES

Abstract In this paper, we propose a new method to generalize Bayesian methods both for fuzzy likelihood and fuzzy prior probabilities. Based on interval Bayesian inference developed by Pan and Klir [1996], the proposed method overcomes the difficulty in developing a normalized fuzzy Bayesian inference recognized in the literature [Friihwirth-Schnatter, 1993].

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