We present a novel characterization of the generalized family wise error rate: kFWER. The interpretation allows researchers to view kFWER as a function of the test statistics rather than current methods based on p-values. Using this interpretation we present several theorems and methods (parametric and non-parametric) for estimating kFWER in various data settings. With this version of kFWER, re...

The authors of this paper have used the assessment of competence as a fuzzy discrete set consisting of essential capacities. There has been proposed a procedure of competence quantitative estimation on the basis of discrimination index of discrete fuzzy sets fixed on one totality. A linguistic variable “Competency coefficient” has been used here for making appropriate decisions on the grounds o...

In order to obtain the information from an L-Fuzzy context, the complete relation between the objects and the attributes is needed. However, the contexts that model many situations have absent values. To solve this problem, at the beginning of the paper we remind the interval-valued linguistic variable definition and, later, we propose an extension of the fuzzy propositions to the interval-valu...

This paper proposes a new approach based on Bonferroni mean operator and possibility degree to solve fuzzy multi-attribute decision making (FMADM) problems in which the attribute value takes the form of interval type-2 fuzzy numbers. We introduce the concepts of interval possibility mean value and present a new method for calculating the possibility degree of two interval trapezoidal type-2 fuz...

In this paper we conjugate the operative usability of the net present value with the capability of the fuzzy and the interval approaches to manage uncertainty. Our fuzzy interval net present value can be interpreted, besides the usual present value of an investment project, as the present value of a contract in which the buyer lets the counterpart the possibility to release goods/services for m...

The Black–Scholes Option pricing model (OPM) developed in 1973 has always been taken as the cornerstone of option pricing model. The generic applications of such a model are always restricted by its nature of not being suitable for fuzzy environment since the decision-making problems occurring in the area of option pricing are always with a feature of uncertainty. When an investor faces an opti...

In a great deal of literature on fuzzy regression analysis, most of research has focused on some predefined parametric forms of fuzzy regression relationships, especially on the fuzzy linear regression models. In many practical situations, it may be unrealistic to predetermine a fuzzy parametric regression relationship. In this paper, a fuzzy nonparametric model with crisp input and LR fuzzy ou...

This study presents a new early warning evaluating method and decision mechanism for urban emergency in which the risk factors are assessed by fuzzy numbers. By using the fuzzy preference relation matrix and the extended fuzzy AHP, the relative weight of each risk factor can be estimated. Then we evaluate the total fuzzy risk value by aggregating the severity of loss of risk factor and the rela...

To reduce the effect of fuzzy vein edges and tips of the infrared finger vein recognition, this paper presents a tri-value template fuzzy matching algorithm, which segments the vein feature image into three areas: subject area, fuzzy area and background area, and computes the average distance of non-background point to non-background area as the dissimilarity score between the two templates. Th...