Title :
How to estimate expected shortfall when probabilities are known with interval or fuzzy uncertainty
Author :
Christian Servin;Hung T. Nguyen;Vladik Kreinovich
Author_Institution :
Information Technology Department, El Paso Community College, TX 79915, USA
Abstract :
To gauge the risk corresponding to a possible disaster, it is important to know both the probability of this disaster and the expected damage caused by such potential disaster (“expected shortfall”). Both these measures of risk are easy to estimate in the ideal case, when we know the exact probabilities of different disaster strengths. In practice, however, we usually only have a partial information about these probabilities: we may have an interval (or, more generally, fuzzy) uncertainty about these probabilities. In this paper, we show how to efficiently estimate the expected shortfall under such interval and/or fuzzy uncertainty.
Keywords :
"Uncertainty","Probability distribution","Integral equations","Reliability engineering","Tsunami","Hurricanes"
Conference_Titel :
Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE), 2015 IEEE International Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2015.7337895