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The mathematical Theory of Evidence has been introduced by Shafer in the 1970s as a reinterpretation of Dempster’s statistical inference. Shafer’s Theory of Evidence begins with the familiar idea of using a number between 0 and 1 to indicate the degree of belief for a proposition on the basis of the available evidence.
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G. Shafer, A Mathematical Theory of Evidence (Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1976)
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Salicone, S., Prioli, M. (2018). Introduction: Probability and Belief Functions. In: Measuring Uncertainty within the Theory of Evidence. Springer Series in Measurement Science and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74139-0_5
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