Expert Judgment, Meta-analysis, and Participatory Risk Analysis

  • Authors:
  • Simon French

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Statistics, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • Decision Analysis
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

There are three contexts in which one might wish to combine expert judgments of uncertainty: the expert problem, the group decision problem, and the textbook problem. Much has been written on the first two, which have the focus of a single decision context, but little on the third. The textbook problem arises when one needs to draw together expert judgments into a decision analysis when their judgments were made originally in a context-free manner or perhaps for other decision contexts. In many ways the textbook problem parallels that of performing a meta-analysis of empirical studies. However, there are differences. In this paper, we discuss those difficulties and then focus on two closely related issues: How should expert judgment studies be published so as to facilitate subsequent meta-analyses, and how should such meta-analyses be performed?