Bayesian inference in group judgment formulation and decision making using qualitative controlled feedback

S. James Press

Expert InsightsPublished 1979

Analyzes the problem of making statistical inferences about group judgments and group decisions using Qualitative Controlled Feedback, from the Bayesian point of view. Many questions are treated simultaneously and an autoregressive model is developed for explaining the responses of the group members as a function of the feedback. The errors are assumed to follow a matrix intraclass covariance structure. Marginal and conditional posterior distributions of the regression coefficient vector are found in both small and large samples. The broadly defined generic family of multidimensional Student t-distributions is found to play a major role in the results.

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  • Copyright: RAND Corporation
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  • Year: 1979
  • Pages: 28
  • Document Number: P-6335

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Press, S. James, Bayesian inference in group judgment formulation and decision making using qualitative controlled feedback. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 1979. https://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P6335.html.
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