FuzzyNumbers (version 0.4-7)

ambiguity: Calculate the Ambiguity of a Fuzzy Number

Description

The ambiguity (Delgado et al, 1998) is a measure of nonspecificity of a fuzzy number.

Usage

# S4 method for FuzzyNumber
ambiguity(object, ...)

Arguments

object

a fuzzy number

...

additional arguments passed to alphaInterval

Value

Returns a single numeric value.

Details

The ambiguity is defined as \(amb(A) := \int_0^1 \alpha\left(A_U(\alpha)-A_L(\alpha)\right)\,d\alpha\).

References

Delgado M., Vila M.A., Voxman W. (1998), On a canonical representation of a fuzzy number, Fuzzy Sets and Systems 93, pp. 125-135.

See Also

Other FuzzyNumber-method: Arithmetic, Extract, FuzzyNumber-class, FuzzyNumber, alphaInterval(), alphacut(), as.FuzzyNumber(), as.PiecewiseLinearFuzzyNumber(), as.PowerFuzzyNumber(), as.TrapezoidalFuzzyNumber(), as.character(), core(), distance(), evaluate(), expectedInterval(), expectedValue(), integrateAlpha(), piecewiseLinearApproximation(), plot(), show(), supp(), trapezoidalApproximation(), value(), weightedExpectedValue(), width()

Other characteristics: expectedValue(), value(), weightedExpectedValue(), width()