Al-Awadhi, Shafiqah A. and Garthwaite, Paul H.
(2006).
| DOI (Digital Object Identifier) Link: | http://doi.org/10.1007/s00180-006-0255-x |
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Abstract
The practical elicitation of expert beliefs about logistic regression models is considered. An experiment is reported in which ecologists quantified their prior beliefs about the relationship between various environmental attributes and the habitat distribution of certain rare and endangered fauna. Prior distributions were elicited from the ecologists and combined with sample data to form posterior distributions. The elicitations method was proposed by Garthwaite and Al-Awadhi(2004) and is implemented through an interactive graphical computer program. Classical stepwise logistic regression and alternative forms of prior distribution are compared using cross validation. Data on the environmental attributes have been mapped and stored in a GIS database and the posterior distributions can be used to predict the probability of a species' presence/absence at any site in the database.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Copyright Holders: | 2006 Physica-Verlag |
| ISSN: | 1613-9658 |
| Keywords: | expert opinion; assessment task; prior probability; logistic regression model |
| Academic Unit/Department: | Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) > Mathematics and Statistics Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) |
| Item ID: | 3472 |
| Depositing User: | Users 2598 not found. |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Aug 2006 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2016 12:55 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/3472 |
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