Re: [freehaven-dev] Dempster-Shafer

[dmolnar@belegost.mit.edu]

This is the sort of assessment/experience I had hoped someone in
the group might have. Thanks. 

Thanks much, 
-David 

On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, Ron Rivest wrote:

> 
> Hi --
> 
> David said: 
> 
>   "I mentioned that I had heard about the Dempster-Shafer "belief model."
>   No one seemed to know about it, so I'll go read about it this week and
>   hopefully we can discuss w/Brian next week. It seems to be a
>   math framework for dealing with partial information."
> 
> I looked at this quite a few years ago, and found it seriously lacking.
> I suggest sticking with more standard probability theory (of the Bayesian
> flavor, where probabilities can represent ``degrees of belief'').  
> 
> 	Cheers,
> 	Ron
>