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- Title
Uncertainty in prior elicitations: a nonparametric approach.
- Authors
Jeremy E. Oakley; Anthony OHagan
- Abstract
A key task in the elicitation of expert knowledge is to construct a distribution from the finite, and usually small, number of statements that have been elicited from the expert. These statements typically specify some quantiles or moments of the distribution. Such statements are not enough to identify the experts probability distribution uniquely, and the usual approach is to fit some member of a convenient parametric family. There are two clear deficiencies in this solution. First, the experts beliefs are forced to fit the parametric family. Secondly, no account is then taken of the many other possible distributions that might have fitted the elicited statements equally well. We present a nonparametric approach which tackles both of these deficiencies. We also consider the issue of the imprecision in the elicited probability judgements.
- Subjects
DISTRIBUTION (Probability theory); STATISTICS; NONPARAMETRIC statistics; PROBABILITY theory
- Publication
Biometrika, 2007, Vol 94, Issue 2, p427
- ISSN
0006-3444
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/biomet/asm031