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In 2001 we introduced the notions of possibilistic mean value and variance of fuzzy numbers. In this paper we give a short survey of these notations and show some examples of their application from the literature.
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Carlsson, C., Fullér, R. (2009). On Possibilistic Mean Value, Variance, Covariance and Correlation of Fuzzy Numbers. In: Rudas, I.J., Fodor, J., Kacprzyk, J. (eds) Towards Intelligent Engineering and Information Technology. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 243. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03737-5_2
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