Dempster-Shafer theory

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Dempster-Shafer theory

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Introduced by Arthur P. Dempster in the context of statistical inference, and later developed by Glenn Shafer into a general framework for modeling epistemic uncertainty.

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uncountable A general framework for reasoning with uncertainty, allowing the combining of evidence from different sources to arrive at a mathematical degree of belief that takes into account all the available evidence.

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@misc{dempster_shafer_theory_2026,
  title = {Dempster-Shafer theory},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/dempster-shafer%20theory},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}