María Asunción Lubiano – författare

This volume contains more than 65 peer-reviewed papers corresponding to presentations at the 11th Conference on Soft Methods in Probability and Statistics (SMPS) held in Salzburg, Austria, in September 2024. It covers recent advances in the field of probability, statistics, and data science, with a particular focus on dealing with dependence, imprecision and incomplete information. Reflecting the fact that data science continues to evolve, this book serves as a bridge between different groups of experts, including statisticians, mathematicians, computer scientists, and engineers, and encourages interdisciplinary research. The selected contributions cover a wide range of topics such as imprecise probabilities, random sets, belief functions, possibility theory, and dependence modeling. Readers will find discussions on clustering, depth concepts, dimensionality reduction, and robustness, reflecting the conference''s commitment to addressing real-world challenges through innovative methods.

Probability theory has been the only well-founded theory of uncertainty for a long time. It was viewed either as a powerful tool for modelling random phenomena, or as a rational approach to the notion of degree of belief. During the last thirty years, in areas centered around decision theory, artificial intelligence and information processing, numerous approaches extending or orthogonal to the existing theory of probability and mathematical statistics have come to the front. The common feature of those attempts is to allow for softer or wider frameworks for taking into account the incompleteness or imprecision of information. Many of these approaches come down to blending interval or fuzzy interval analysis with probabilistic methods.

This book gathers contributions to the 4th International Conference on Soft methods in Probability and Statistics. Its aim is to present recent results illustrating such new trends that enlarge the statistical and uncertainty modeling traditions, towards the handling of incomplete or subjective information. It covers a broad scope ranging from philosophical and mathematical underpinnings of new uncertainty theories, with a stress on their impact in the area of statistics and data analysis, to numerical methods and applications to environmental risk analysis and mechanical engineering. A unique feature of this collection is to establish a dialogue between fuzzy random variables and imprecise probability theories.