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This note discusses a few issues related to Yager's specificity index and the “possibilistic entropy” recently introduced by Higashi and Klir. A probabilistic interpretation of Yager's index is provided; moreover it is indicated that both indices can be straightforwardly extended to assess the amount of imprecision in Shafer's belief functions.
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Dubois et al. (1985) studied this question.
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