The present paper deals with the extension of the likelihood estimation to the situation where the experimentation does not provide exact information but rather vague information.The extension process tries to achieve three fundamental objectives: the new method must be an extension of the maximum likelihood method, it has to be very simple to apply and it must allow for an interesting interpretation.These objectives are achieved herein by using the following concepts: the fuzzy information (introduced...

The problem of testability has been undertaken many times in the context of linear hypotheses. Almost all these considerations restricted to some algebraical conditions without reaching the nature of the problem. Therefore, a general and commonly acceptable notion of testability is still wanted. Our notion is based on a simple and natural decision theoretic requirement and is characterized in terms of the families of distributions corresponding to the null and the alternative hypothesis. Its consequences...