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Book Information:

Author: Glenn Shafer
Title: A mathematical theory of evidence
Additional book information: Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1976, xiii + 297 pp., $17.50 (cloth) and $8.95 (paper).

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Review Information:

Reviewer: Terrence L. Fine
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 83 (1977), 667-672
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9904-1977-14338-3
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