Consensus in distributed estimation with inconsistent beliefs

✍ Scribed by D. Teneketzis; P. Varaiya

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1984
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 342 KB
• Volume: 4
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0167-6911
• DOI: 10.1016/s0167-6911(84)80028-6

✦ Synopsis

Two people sequentially revise and exchange their estimates of the same random variable. They may have different models of the underlying probability structure.

The two sets of estimates then will converge to the same value, or the people will realize that their beliefs are inconsistent.