CONCEPT OF A LINGUISTIC VARIABLE AND ITS APPLICATION TO APPROXIMATE REASONING .3.
CONCEPT OF A LINGUISTIC VARIABLE AND ITS APPLICATION TO APPROXIMATE REASONING .3.
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DOI:
10.1016/0020-0255(75)90017-1
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发表时间:
1975-01-01
影响因子:
8.1
通讯作者:
ZADEH, LA
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作者:
ZADEH, LA
In the classical approach to probability theory, an event, A, is defined as a member of a o-field,, d, of subsets of a sample space ft. Thus, ifP is a normed measure over a measurable space (a, _~#), the probabibty of A is defined as P (A), the measure of. 4, and is a number in the interval [0, I]. There are many real-world problems in which one or more of the basic assumptions which are implicit in the above definition are violated. First, the event, A, is frequently ill-defined, as in the question,“What is the probability that it will be a warm day tomorrow?” In this instance, the event warm day is a fuzzy event in the sense that there is no sharp dividing line between its occurrence and nonoccurrence. As shown in [48], such an event may be characterized as a fuzzy subset, A, of the sample space Q, with tiA, the membership function of A, being a measurable function. Second, even if A is a well-defined nonfuzzy event, its probability, P (A), may be ill-defined. For example, in response to the question,“What is the probability that the Dow Jones average of stock prices will be higher in a month from now?” it would be patently unreasonable to give an unequivocal numerical answer, eg, 0.7. In this instance, a vague response like “quite probable,” would be much more commensurate with our lack of understanding of the dynamics of stock prices, and hence a more realistic-if less precisecharacterization of the probability in question.