The expert package provides tools to create and manipulate empirical statistical models using expert opinion (or judgment). Here, the latter expression refers to a specific body of techniques to elicit the distribution of a random variable when data is scarce or unavailable. Opinions on the quantiles of the distribution are sought from experts in the field and aggregated into a final estimate. The package supports aggregation by means of the Cooke, Mendel–Sheridan and predefined weights models.
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For attribution, please cite this work as
Goulet, et al., "expert: Modeling Without Data Using Expert Opinion", The R Journal, 2009
BibTeX citation
@article{RJ-2009-005,
author = {Goulet, Vincent and Jacques, Michel and Pigeon, Mathieu},
title = {expert: Modeling Without Data Using Expert Opinion},
journal = {The R Journal},
year = {2009},
note = {https://doi.org/10.32614/RJ-2009-005},
doi = {10.32614/RJ-2009-005},
volume = {1},
issue = {1},
issn = {2073-4859},
pages = {31-36}
}