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Introduced by Arthur P. Dempster in the context of statistical inference, and later developed by Glenn Shafer into a general framework for modeling epistemic uncertainty.
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Dempster-Shafer theory
Today it means: A general framework for reasoning with uncertainty, allowing the combining of evidence from different sources to arrive at a mathematical degree of belief that takes into account all the available evidence. Full definition →