nips nips2010 nips2010-214 nips2010-214-reference knowledge-graph by maker-knowledge-mining
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Author: Peter Jones, Venkatesh Saligrama, Sanjoy Mitter
Abstract: Experts (human or computer) are often required to assess the probability of uncertain events. When a collection of experts independently assess events that are structurally interrelated, the resulting assessment may violate fundamental laws of probability. Such an assessment is termed incoherent. In this work we investigate how the problem of incoherence may be affected by allowing experts to specify likelihood models and then update their assessments based on the realization of a globally-observable random sequence. Keywords: Bayesian Methods, Information Theory, consistency