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To encounter this problem lots of relevant researches have already been carried out. However, previous methods often only take into account either the information of the expert who provided incomplete preference, or information provided by the rest of the group. To be more thorough and comprehensive, this paper combined both parts of the information, by first setting the unknown preference values as output and known ones as inputs, training the Bayesian regression model with the complete observations of other experts to detect the associations between them, and then putting in the incomplete preference information to predict the unknown ones. Moreover, inspired by the empirical rule of the Gaussian distribution, this paper also propose to combine the concept of confidence interval with that of interval-valued preference relations, by expressing the prediction results with interval-valued fuzzy reciprocal relations to allow some degree of uncertainty. 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