Title :
Strong law of large numbers with respect to a fuzzy probability measure
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Math. Sci., Cincinnati Univ., OH, USA
Abstract :
In a nonstatistical setting, a strong law of large numbers with respect to a set-valued probability measure was proved by M. C. Puri and D. A. Ralescu (1983). The author considers an extension of the results to situations where the measures are fuzzy set-valued. Probability values such as small, large, approximately 0.6, very large, and so on are part of the framework of fuzzy set-valued measures. The author defines the concepts of fuzzy probability measure and the expected value (integral) of a random vector in this framework. The main result is a strong law of large numbers with respect to a fuzzy probability measure. This framework is useful in Bayesian inference with a prior containing a mixture of probabilistic-fuzzy information
Keywords :
fuzzy set theory; inference mechanisms; probability; Bayesian inference; fuzzy probability measure; fuzzy set theory; random vector; strong law of large numbers; Bayesian methods; Fuzzy sets; Testing;
Conference_Titel :
Fuzzy Systems, 1992., IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-0236-2
DOI :
10.1109/FUZZY.1992.258680