How to Gauge Accuracy of Measurements and of Expert Estimates: Beyond Normal Distributions

Authors

Christian Servin, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow
Aline Jaimes, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow
Craig Tweedie, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow
Aaron A. Velasco, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow
Omar Ochoa, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow
Vladik Kreinovich, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow

Publication Date

7-2013

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Technical Report: UTEP-CS-13-40

To appear in Proceedings of 3rd World Conference on Soft Computing, San Antonio, December 15-18, 2013.

Abstract

To properly process data, we need to know the accuracy of different data points, i.e., accuracy of different measurement results and expert estimates. Often, this accuracy is not given. For such situations, we describe how this accuracy can be estimated based on the available data.