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In many fields (for example in medical diagnosis) the problem of evaluating the probability of a possible event, not yet occurred in the available data, needs to be faced. In this paper we show how to deal with such a problem inside the theory of coherent conditional probabilities.
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Scozzafava, R., Vantaggi, B. (2004). The Role of Zero Probabilities in Dealing with Zero Frequency Problems. In: Soft Methodology and Random Information Systems. Advances in Soft Computing, vol 26. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-44465-7_32
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