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The authors regret that an imprecise statement was made in this article, and wish to offer this Corrigendum as clarification. The authors would like to apologise for any inconvenience caused.
Imprecise statement: Misuri et al. (2018, pp. 70) state in their work: "Differently from EN [evidential network], CN [credal network] can be used both to conduct forward analysis and to update probabilities". This statement implies that EN cannot be used for belief updating and should be mapped into a corresponding CN for that purpose.
Correction: The foregoing statement may be correct for conventional ENs that are based on Dempster's combination rule, but does not hold true for the EN developed by Simon and co-workers (2008, 2009) based on Bayesian network (BN) inference algorithms (herein, BN-based EN).
Simon and Weber (2009) explicitly mention in their work that the developed EN can be used for belief updating: "The computation mechanism is based on the Bayes theorem, which is extended to the representation of uncertain information according to the framework of Dempster-Shafer theory. Specific evidence (Hard evidence) is modeled by a mass of 1 on one of the focal elements of the frame of discernment. Non-specific evidence (Soft evidence) corresponds to a mass distribution on the focal elements of the frame of discernment."...[more]...
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