Uncertainty Levels of Second-Order Probability



Título del documento: Uncertainty Levels of Second-Order Probability
Revista: Polibits
Base de datos: PERIÓDICA
Número de sistema: 000374514
ISSN: 1870-9044
Autores: 1
2
Instituciones: 1Stockholm University, Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, Estocolmo. Suecia
2University of Skovde, Informatics Research Center, Skovde. Suecia
Año:
Periodo: Jul-Dic
Número: 48
Paginación: 5-11
País: México
Idioma: Inglés
Tipo de documento: Artículo
Enfoque: Aplicado, descriptivo
Resumen en inglés Since second-order probability distributions assign probabilities to probabilities there is uncertainty on two levels. Although different types of uncertainty have been distinguished before and corresponding measures suggested, the distinction made here between first- and second-order levels of uncertainty has not been considered before. In this paper previously existing measures are considered from the perspective of first- and second-order uncertainty and new measures are introduced. We conclude that the concepts of uncertainty and informativeness needs to be qualified if used in a second-order probability context and suggest that from a certain point of view information can not be minimized, just shifted from one level to another
Disciplinas: Ciencias de la computación,
Matemáticas
Palabras clave: Matemáticas aplicadas,
Entropía,
Incertidumbre,
Probabilidad de segundo orden
Keyword: Computer science,
Mathematics,
Applied mathematics,
Entropy,
Uncertainty,
Second order probability
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