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Several new resampling methods for generating bootstrap samples of fuzzy numbers are proposed. To avoid undesired repetitions in the secondary samples we do not draw randomly directly observations from the primary samples but construct them allowing for some modifications in their membership functions,...

A new methodology for processing non-normal fuzzy sets is proposed. To break the predominant constraint on normality of fuzzy numbers the concept of fuzzy semi-numbers is introduced Then it is shown how to generalize operations defined on fuzzy numbers onto a family of fuzzy semi-numbers with possibly...

A novel way for addressing one-sided hypothesis tests for the mean of unable to observe real random variables from which we have information provided in terms of interval data is proposed. For this purpose, a measure of similarity between intervals is considered and the classical one-sided hypothesis...

Recently, Grzegorzewski [9] introduced two new families of fuzzy implication functions called survival implications and survival S-implications. These two classes of multivalued implications are based on conditional copulas. In the same article the author gave a motivation to his ideas and he analyzed...

Recently, two new families of fuzzy implication functions called probabilistic implications and probabilistic S-implications were introduced by Grzegorzewski [6, 7, 9]. They are based on conditional copulas and make a bridge between probability theory and fuzzy logic. In this paper we generalize these...

Fuzzy number approximation by trapezoidal fuzzy numbers which preserves the expected interval is discussed. New operators that fulfill additional requirements for the core and support of the fuzzy number are suggested. These supplementary conditions guarantee the proper interpretation of the solution...

P. Grzegorzewski [3] has worked the probability version of the inclusion-exclusion principle and made a generalization for IF-events. He had applied two versions of the generalized formula, corresponding to different t-conorms and so defined the union of IF-events. This paper contains the generalization...

Fuzzy data applied for modeling imprecise observations cause many problems in statistical reasoning and data analysis. To handle better such observations a new bootstrap technique designed for epistemic fuzzy data is proposed. Our new method is conceptually simple and is not hard computationally. Some...

Statistics with interval-valued data are getting less interest from practitioners than it really deserves. This is partly because the solutions it offers are often too conservative and hence do not fully meet the expectations of potential users. Thus it is necessary to develop methods which, despite...

A new resampling approach for simulating bootstrapped samples of fuzzy numbers is proposed. The secondary samples consist of fuzzy numbers which preserve the canonical representation (i.e., the value and ambiguity) of fuzzy numbers belonging to the primary sample, although may differ from the initial...

Since fuzzy numbers are not linearly ordered a median of a fuzzy sample cannot be determined directly as it happens with crisp observations. Even the very notion of a median of a fuzzy sample is not well established. Therefore we propose some definitions of the fixed-shape fuzzy median of a fuzzy sample...

A new family of implication operators, called probabilistic implications, is introduced. The suggested implications are based on conditional copulas and make a bridge between probability theory and fuzzy logic. It is shown that some well-known fuzzy implications appear as a particular probabilistic implications....

In this paper we present a general framework to face the problem of evaluate fuzzy quantities. A fuzzy quantity is a fuzzy set that may be non normal and/or non convex. This new formulation contains as particular cases the ones proposed by Fortemps and Roubens (1996), Yager and Filev (1981,1999) and...

Two classes of aggregation functions: L-statistics and S-statistics and their generalizations called quasi-L-statistics and quasi-S-statistics are considered. Some interesting characterizations of these families of operators are given. The aforementioned functions are useful for various applications....