{"title":"Distributions with fuzziness and randomness","authors":"Ru-Jen Chao, B. Ayyub","doi":"10.1109/ISUMA.1995.527774","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Both cognitive and noncognitive uncertainties can be present in the same variable. The non-cognitive uncertainty of a variable can be described by its own probability density function (PDF); whereas the cognitive uncertainty of a random variable can be described by the membership function for its fuzziness and its /spl alpha/-cuts. A PDF called fuzzy-random PDF is proposed in this paper based on considering the combined effects of both cognitive and non-cognitive uncertainties for the variable. The variable is assumed to have a fuzzy mean and a non-fuzzy standard deviation. The fuzzy-random PDF is defined as the marginal density function of the multiplication of its normalized membership function and its random distribution. Relationships for the means and variances among the fuzzy-random distribution, normalized membership function, and random distribution were developed. The moments method and discrete method were proposed for dealing with the fuzzy-random PDF.","PeriodicalId":298915,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 3rd International Symposium on Uncertainty Modeling and Analysis and Annual Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1995-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"10","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings of 3rd International Symposium on Uncertainty Modeling and Analysis and Annual Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISUMA.1995.527774","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Both cognitive and noncognitive uncertainties can be present in the same variable. The non-cognitive uncertainty of a variable can be described by its own probability density function (PDF); whereas the cognitive uncertainty of a random variable can be described by the membership function for its fuzziness and its /spl alpha/-cuts. A PDF called fuzzy-random PDF is proposed in this paper based on considering the combined effects of both cognitive and non-cognitive uncertainties for the variable. The variable is assumed to have a fuzzy mean and a non-fuzzy standard deviation. The fuzzy-random PDF is defined as the marginal density function of the multiplication of its normalized membership function and its random distribution. Relationships for the means and variances among the fuzzy-random distribution, normalized membership function, and random distribution were developed. The moments method and discrete method were proposed for dealing with the fuzzy-random PDF.