Statistical inference with belief functions: A survey

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.07908v1
• Date: Fri, 08 May 2026 15:46:18 GMT
• Title: Statistical inference with belief functions: A survey
• Abstract summary: Belief functions are a powerful and popular framework for the mathematical characterisation of uncertainty.<n>The first step in a reasoning chain based on belief functions is inference: how to learn a belief measure from the available data.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Belief functions are a powerful and popular framework for the mathematical characterisation of uncertainty, in particular in situations in which lack of data renders learning a probability distribution for the problem impractical. The first step in a reasoning chain based on belief functions is inference: how to learn a belief measure from the available data. In this survey we focus, in particular, on making inference from statistical data, and review the most significant contributions in the area.

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