Tony O'Hagan - SHELF: the Sheffield Elicitation Framework


Probabilistic judgements e-learning


Background

Elicitation requires experts to make probabilistic judgements, such as median and quartiles, that are difficult and unfamiliar tasks for most experts. Training is always given in a SHELF workshop, but it takes time for experts to understand the judgements required and to make them reliably. The idea of the e-learning course is for experts who will take part in a SHELF elicitation workshop to get exposure to the kinds of judgements they will be required to make, before the workshop itself, and in a relaxed, self-paced way.

The development of the course was funded by a grant from the United States Office of Naval Research for the PCOD+ project whose primary concern was the study of how human disuption, for instance from shipping or wind-farms, affects marine mammals. The course therefore draws particularly on examples from that area, although it is intended for experts from any discipline.

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Take the course

The e-learning course, entitled "Probabilistic Judgements for Expert Elicitation" is open for anyone to use. You are free to take the course by following the links below for the five modules. If you stop in the middle of a module, you will be asked when you start it again whether you wish to continue from where you left off.

It should take no more than two hours to complete the course.

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MATCH guide

Another output of the PCOD+ project is a simple user guide for the MATCH elicitation tool. In particular, this guide shows how to use MATCH to see fitted distributions corresponding to judgements you have made in Module 4 of the course. Seeing the implications of your judgements in this way allows you to gain more experience and confidence in making probailistic judgements.

Customising

The course can easily be customised for experts in a specific discipline or for a specific organisation. The main customisation task is to change the examples so that they are relevant to the intended audience. If you are interested in creating a customised course, please email Tony O'Hagan.
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Last updated: 8 November 2022
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