Review: Glenn Shafer, A mathematical theory of evidence
Terrence L. Fine
Source: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. Volume 83, Number 4
(1977), 667-672.
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Glenn Shafer, A mathematical theory of evidence. Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1976, xiii + 297 pp., $17.50 (cloth) and $8.95 (paper)
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