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Probabilities in the Problem of Classification

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Evaluation of alternatives may be derived from probabilistic comparisons made with different sets of profiles which represent ordered classes. This may be used to solve the problem of, instead of choosing the best or worst alternative, identifying alternatives that correspond to each of a set of different levels of performance.

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Parracho Sant’Anna, A. (2015). Probabilities in the Problem of Classification. In: Probabilistic Composition of Preferences, Theory and Applications. Decision Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11277-0_8

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