Synthesising expert opinion
There was considerable diversity across the experts in the weights provided, with some reviewers having a tendency to assign much higher or much lower weights than others (Boxplots showing the spread of reviewer responses about each study’s weight. Study numbers are in same order as in Before putting weights into the model, we assessed the reviewers’ performance in a series of steps described in the To produce a collective study weight and outcome weight to put into the Bayesian model, we followed the approach of mathematical aggregation
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