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+"""
+Based on: 
+"Data Classification Using the Dempster-Shafer Method. 
+    Qi Chen, Amanda Whitbrook, Uwe Aickelin and Chris Roadknight"
+
+Dempster’s rule of combination (DRC)
+"""
+
+# NOTE replace attributes for model of the ensemble 
+
+# The training data is used to build the mass functions
+
+# 1 maximum and minimum values for each class based 
+# on one attribute of the training data are found
+
+
+# The system combines the mass values from all four attributes using DRC,
+# thus producing overall mass values for all hypotheses, and the hypothesis
+# with the highest belief value is used to classify the data item. 
+# If the hypothesis does not represent a single class, 
+# then a second step is necessary.
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