A New Method for Multinomial Inference using Dempster-Shafer Theory
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| author | Lawrence, Earl C. Murph, Alexander C. Wiel, Scott A. Vander Liu, Chaunhai |
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| contents | A new method for multinomial inference is proposed by representing the cell probabilities as unordered segments on the unit interval and following Dempster-Shafer (DS) theory. The resulting DS posterior is then strengthened to improve symmetry and learning properties with the final posterior model being characterized by a Dirichlet distribution. In addition to computational simplicity, the new model has desirable invariance properties related to category permutations, refinements, and coarsenings. Furthermore, posterior inference on relative probabilities amongst certain cells depends only on data for the cells in question. Finally, the model is quite flexible with regard to parameterization and the range of testable assertions. Comparisons are made to existing methods and illustrated with two examples. |
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| spellingShingle | A New Method for Multinomial Inference using Dempster-Shafer Theory Lawrence, Earl C. Murph, Alexander C. Wiel, Scott A. Vander Liu, Chaunhai Methodology A new method for multinomial inference is proposed by representing the cell probabilities as unordered segments on the unit interval and following Dempster-Shafer (DS) theory. The resulting DS posterior is then strengthened to improve symmetry and learning properties with the final posterior model being characterized by a Dirichlet distribution. In addition to computational simplicity, the new model has desirable invariance properties related to category permutations, refinements, and coarsenings. Furthermore, posterior inference on relative probabilities amongst certain cells depends only on data for the cells in question. Finally, the model is quite flexible with regard to parameterization and the range of testable assertions. Comparisons are made to existing methods and illustrated with two examples. |
| title | A New Method for Multinomial Inference using Dempster-Shafer Theory |
| topic | Methodology |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.05512 |