Probabilities for Solar Siblings

Exponential Models: Approximations for Probabilities

Welch & Peers (1963) used a root-information prior to obtain posterior probabilities for a scalar parameter exponential model and showed that these Bayes probabilities had the confidence property to second order asymptotically. An important undercurrent of this indicates that the constant information reparameterization provides location model structure, for which the confidence property ...

Indexing for XML Siblings

Efficient querying XML documents is an increasingly important issue considering the fact that XML becomes the de facto standard for data representation and exchange over the Web, and XML data in diverse data sources and applications is growing rapidly in size. Given the importance of XPath based query access, Grust proposed R-tree index, we refer to as whole-tree indexes (WI). Such index, howev...

Transition Probabilities for Continual

Databases for interval probabilities

In today’s uncertain world, imprecision in probabilistic information is often specified by probability intervals. We present here a new database framework for the efficient storage and manipulation of interval probability distribution functions and their associated contextual information. While work on interval probabilities and on probabilistic databases, has appeared before, ours is the first...

Semantics for Interval Probabilities

We look at the several sorts of semantics that have been provided for “probability”, and explore the possibilities of generalizing them to imprecise probabilities. The Support Set of a statement is a useful auxiliary construct, however probability is interpreted.