Title
A measurement application of conditional possibility distributions
Abstract
Conditional probability distributions and Bayes' theorem are an important and powerful tool in measurement, whenever a priori information about the measurand is available. It is well-known that the measurement result and associated uncertainty (a posteriori information) can be used to revise the a priori information and, hopefully, decrease its uncertainty. This tool can be used only if both a priori and a posteriori information can be expressed in terms of a probability distribution. A recent approach to uncertainty evaluation expresses measurement results in terms of Random Fuzzy Variables (RFVs), that is in terms of possibility distributions, instead of probability distributions. This paper proposes an extension of the concept of conditional distributions and Bayes theorem to the possibility distributions, and considers a simple measurement example to prove its validity.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/I2MTC.2014.6860801
Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference
Keywords
Field
DocType
bayes methods,fuzzy set theory,measurement uncertainty,random processes,statistical distributions,bayes theorem,rfv,a posteriori information,a priori information,conditional possibility distribution,measurement application,measurement uncertainty evaluation,possibility distribution,random fuzzy variables,conditioning,possibility distributions,random-fuzzy variables,systematic effects,uncertainty evaluation,probability distribution,systematics,uncertainty,temperature measurement
Econometrics,Propagation of uncertainty,Industrial engineering,Sensitivity analysis,Measurement uncertainty,Control engineering,Uncertainty analysis,Mathematics
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.37
10
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
A. Ferrero137688.12
Prioli, M.210.37
S. Salicone313332.59