ISIPTA'09 - SIXTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON
IMPRECISE PROBABILITY: THEORIES AND APPLICATIONS

Durham University, Department of Mathematical Sciences
Durham, United Kingdom
Tuesday 14 to Saturday 18 July 2009

ELECTRONIC PROCEEDINGS

Enrique Miranda, Marco Zaffalon

Natural Extension as a Limit of Regular Extensions

Abstract

This paper is devoted to the extension of conditional assessments that satisfy some consistency criteria, such as weak or strong coherence, to further domains. In particular, we characterise the natural extension of a number of conditional lower previsions on finite spaces, by showing that it can be calculated as the limit of a sequence of conditional lower previsions defined by regular extension. Our results are valid for conditional lower previsions with non-linear domains, and allow us to give an equivalent formulation of the notion of coherence in terms of credal sets.

Keywords. Coherent lower previsions, weak and strong coherence, natural extension, regular extension, desirable gambles.

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Authors addresses:

Enrique Miranda
Dep. of Statistics and O.R.
University of Oviedo
C-Calvo Sotelo, s/n
33007 Oviedo (Spain)

Marco Zaffalon
Galleria 2
CH-6928 Manno
Switzerland

E-mail addresses:

Enrique Miranda mirandaenrique@uniovi.es
Marco Zaffalon zaffalon@idsia.ch


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