Rejoinder on “A distance-based statistical analysis of fuzzy number-valued data”

• Advantages of using distances in the setting of fuzzy number-valued data.
• Exemplifying ideas behind Zadeh's ‘precisiation of the imprecise’.
• Interpretation of the inferential techniques with fuzzy data.

This note is a rejoinder on our paper in this issue. It attempts to provide some clarifications and thoughts in connection with the discussions/comments made about it by Didier Dubois and Sébastien Destercke. We hope our comments are at the level of the discussants'.