Software for Eliciting a Dirichlet Prior Using Lower and Upper Bounds on Indivdual Probabilities

The program is writtten in R with a front-end to make it fairly "user friendly". To run the software make sure that you have installed the following R libraries:

install.packages("gtools")
install.packages("shiny")
install.packages("shinydashboard")

The software for the elicitation is available here: server.R and ui.R. Download these files and place them in a relevant directory. Then proceed as follows after downloading RStudio at https://www.rstudio.com/ and installing the software.

1. Open RStudio.
2. Open server.R in RStudio (for the first run navigate within RStudio to the folder containing server.R after this it should run simply by clicking on server.R).
3. Click RunApp button.
4. Fill in the boxes with the values relevant to the elicitation and submit. Please note that the default values in the boxes will typically have to be changed for meaningful results to be obtained.

Send any comments to: Mike Evans .