SHELF

Tools to Support the Sheffield Elicitation Framework

Last update: 7 June 2023

Software version identifier: 1.8.0, 1.0.1, 1.1.0, 1.2.0, 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 1.2.3, 1.3.0, 1.4.0, 1.5.0, 1.6.0, 1.7.0, 1.9.0

Source code repository: https://github.com/cran/SHELF

Copyright license: GNU General Public License, version 3.0, GNU General Public License, version 2.0

Description

Implements various methods for eliciting a probability distribution for a single parameter from an expert or a group of experts. The expert provides a small number of probability judgements, corresponding to points on his or her cumulative distribution function. A range of parametric distributions can then be fitted and displayed, with feedback provided in the form of fitted probabilities and percentiles. For multiple experts, a weighted linear pool can be calculated. Also includes functions for eliciting beliefs about population distributions, eliciting multivariate distributions using a Gaussian copula, eliciting a Dirichlet distribution, and eliciting distributions for variance parameters in a random effects meta-analysis model. R Shiny apps for most of the methods are included.