massQ-class {EvCombR}R Documentation

Class "massQ"

Description

Class that maintains information about the mass on the empty set. The class is used for Yager's combination operator

Objects from the Class

A massQ-object is obtained as a result of Yager's combination operator yComb.

Slots

qEmpty:

mass on the empty set with respect to the previous combination

focal:

a list of focal elements represented by statenames seperated by "/"

space:

the state space represented by a character vector

Extends

Class "mass", directly.

Methods

All methods inherited from mass-class and in addition:

mass

signature(x = "massQ", y = "missing"): convert the massQ-object to a mass-object

Author(s)

Alexander Karlsson

References

Yager, R. (1987), On the Dempster-Shafer Framework and New Combination Rules, Information Sciences 41: 93-137.


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