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Expert Judgment, Meta-analysis, and Participatory Risk Analysis

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  • Simon French

    (Department of Statistics, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom)

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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?

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  • Simon French, 2012. "Expert Judgment, Meta-analysis, and Participatory Risk Analysis," Decision Analysis, INFORMS, vol. 9(2), pages 119-127, June.
  • Handle: RePEc:inm:ordeca:v:9:y:2012:i:2:p:119-127
    DOI: 10.1287/deca.1120.0234
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