Publication Date
12-2013
Abstract
An engineering analysis requires a realistic quantification of all input information. The amount and quality of the available information dictates the uncertainty model and its associated quantification concept. For inconsistent information, a distinction between probabilistic and non-probabilistic characteristics is beneficial. In this distinction, uncertainty refers to probabilistic characteristics and non-probabilistic characteristics are summarized as imprecision. When uncertainty and imprecision occur simultaneously, the uncertainty model fuzzy randomness appears useful. In a Bayesian approach the fuzzy probabilistic model provides the opportunity to take account of imprecision in data and in prior expert knowledge. The Bayesian approach ex-tended to inconsistent information is demonstrated by means of an example.
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Technical Report: UTEP-CS-13-78
Published in Proceedings of the 59th World Statistics Congress, Hong Kong, China, August 25-30, 2013.