Elicitation, assessment, and pooling of expert judgments using possibility theory
IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy SystemsPublished 1 January 1995Open access
Sandra Sandri, Didier Dubois, H. W. Kalfsbeek
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This paper forms a model of expert opinion by means of possibility distributions that are thought to better reflect the imprecision pervading expert judgments and are weak substitutes to unreachable subjective probabilities.
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