In the first part of this paper, structure–odour relationships for sandalwood odourants were studied for a set of 158 compounds (75 inactive and 83 active). The first step in the study consists in an evaluation of empirical rules concerning structure–sandalwood odour relationships, by means...

A generalized Bayesian inference framework in order to embed fuzzy sets and partial probabilistic information is provided. The general framework of reference is that of coherent conditional probabilities, which allows giving a rigorous interpretation of membership function as a conditional...