This version contains many improvements on earlier versions, namely functions to help construct bca parameters, partition of description (tt) matrices, improve numerical stability and other functions to help work with large mass functions.
New function: ttmatrixPartition: construct partition matrix
New functions: ttmatrixFromMarginal, mFromMarginal: construct bca parameters from a vector of probabilities
New functions: nzdsrLogsumexp, dsrwonLogsumexp, belplauLogsumexp, belplauHLogsumexp, logsum: using logsumexp for nzdsr, dsrwon, belplau, improving numerical stability
New function: belplauEval: evaluate type I, II, III error
New function: bcaNorm: evaluate Lp norm between two bcas
new function: intersBySSName: Intersect two vectors of subsets names. Utility function called when using subsets names instead of intersecting description matrices to obtain combinations.
New function: bcaPrintLarge: print bca statistics with a large number of subsets
Function bcaTrunc: Parameter “use_ssnames” added to allow use of subsets names to do truncation instead of description (tt) matrix.
Function bca: parameter ssnames is reinstalled in the function call
Name of function ssnames changed for DoSSnames to avoid confusion with parameter ssnames of bca object.
Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.
Function nzdsr: Call to function ttmatrix to reconstruct description matrix from subsets names
New function: ttmatrix: Construct a description matrix from a list of subsets names.
New function: belplauH: Efficient computation of the measures of belief, disbelief and plausibility.
Function belplau: Modified to call belplauH (computation more efficient).
Parameter sparseM removed. Not necessary to specify this. Replaced by parameter use_ssnames.
New parameter: use_ssnames = c(TRUE, FALSE). Default = FALSE. use “TRUE” when you want to work specifically with subsets names to do the intersections. Work only with the univariate frame of discernment. Doesn’t work yet with product spaces.
New parameter: skpt_tt = c(FALSE, TRUE). Default = FALSE". Choose TRUE if you don’t want to save this table. Useful if you apply the function repeatedly, and you want to save the last result only.
addTobca: A parameter “status” has been added to the “spec” of the bca in order to distinguish the new subsets added from the ones already present (documentation to be updated with an example).
bca: parameters ssnames and sfod removed. It is not necessary to supply subsets names. They are obtained from the columns names of tt (0,1) matrix. See the new function “ssnames” designed for that.
dsrwon: correction to call to dst package for parallel processing.
nameRows: Allow sparse matrix as input. Removed stopping the function if there is no column names.Generate column names instead.
A call to function “dsrwon” has been removed to speed up the function. If the empty set is in first position in the matrix of subsets, as it should be, the normalization will be done correctly.
Removed the test with the conflict index. This test would stop the function. The conflict indice does not play a role in the combination by Dempster’s rule. This is only a decision aid in the analysis of conflicting evidence
Added the possibility of using subsets label (parameter ssnames) instead of a description matrix (parameter tt).
ssnames: New function. Construct subsets names from the columns names of tt matrix. Subsets names will be used to do intersections instead of (0,1) matrices.
dsrwon. New version allowing the use of sparse matrices. use of subset names to do intersections.
dotprod, inters nameRows. Update of functions to allow the use of sparse matrices
Version 1.5.1.9004 published 2023-11-16 on CRAN tagged 1.5.2
2023-04-17. Added another missing specification to variable vacuous
2023-04-01. Added a missing specification to variable vacuous.
addTobca: 2021-12-13. Added a check to remove duplicate subsets.
tabresul: 2021-12-14. Correction to the ordering of the three last rows of the table of results.
Vignette Zadeh’s Example: 2021-12-21. Done with the peeling algorithm.
Functions revised. All functions : code simplification and documentation
dsrwon: 2021-04-23. Calculation of the measure of conflict revised to take into account the case of the combination with the vacuous belief function. This case is used at the beginning of nzdsr (normalization) to update the I12 matrix.
elim: 2021-05-30: example revised; 2021-07-06: call to fn matrixToMarray changed. Call to new fn “nameCols_prod”
extmin: 2021-08-19: call to fn matrixToMarray changed.
marrayToMatrix: 2021-06-29. Function call changed. Call to new fn “nameCols_prod”.
matrixToMarray: 2021-06-18. Function call changed
nameCols: 2021-06-28. Function call changed
nameCols_prod: 2021-06-28. New function. Used in functions extmin and elim.
tabresul: 2021-07-30. Sort the results in order to always show the frame at the last line of the table
peeling: New. 2021-09-06. Compute the belief function of a variable of interest by successive elimination of all the other variables of an hypergraph.
version 1.4.1 published on CRAN 2020-03-28. As of 2020-02-23
added utility function bcaPrint for printing of the subsets of non-zero mass of a belief function.
Captain’s problem
function dsrwon: added a check on values names to ensure that the two bca’s combined are defined on the same space.
function extmin: added checks on names of variables, as well as their number and their position in a product space
Correction to fn extmin: Added a test for variable names missing.
Correction to productSpace function. Transpose of array removed at the end of the function.
added utility functions ‘matrixToMarray’ and ‘marrayToMatrix’ to execute the product space conversion of multidimensional data represented by a matrix, and vice-versa.
debugging of function ‘extmin’ (extension of data to a larger product space).
debugging of function ‘elim’ (reduction of a product space by elimination of one variable).
dst v1.1.0.9000 * 2018-05-01.
addTobca: New function. Adds some elements of 0 mass to an existing mass function.
bca: New version. Sets a class named “bcaspec”. Parameters added to work with definitions on product spaces (relations).
Correction to fn tabresul: added a check for the case of the empty set present with m_empty = 0
Added a vignette: The Monty hall Game, an introduction to belief functions.
functions (new and updated):
addTobca: New function. Adds some elements of 0 mass to an existing mass function.
bca: New version. Sets a class named “bcaspec”. Parameters added to work with definitions on product spaces (relations).
bcaRel: New function to define a belief function on a product space.
belplau: Calculation of measures of belief, plausibility and ratio of plausibility.
reduction: utility function to obtain the summary of a vector for any operator
dsrwon: Combination of two mass functions
elim: This is a new function. This function works on a relation defined on a product of two variables or more. Having fixed a variable to eliminate from the relation, the reduced product space is determined and the corresponding reduced bca is computed.This operation is also called “marginalization”.
extmin: Extension of a relation to a greater product space
inters: Intersection of two tables of propositions
nameRows: New function: Using the column names of a matrix to construct names for the rows
nzdsr: Normalization of results from Dempster’s rule of combination.
productSpace: New function. Product space representation of a relation
plautrans:Plausibility transformation of the singletons of a frame
tabresul: Prepare a table of results.
Removal of obsolete functions:
butLast, combmasses, dempster, initsing, rplau, transfo