A finite mixture modelling perspective for combining experts’ opinions with an application to quantile-based risk measures

Despoina Makariou, Pauline Barrieu and George Tzougas

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Abstract: The key purpose of this paper is to present an alternative viewpoint for combining expert opinions based on finite mixture models. Moreover, we consider that the components of the mixture are not necessarily assumed to be from the same parametric family. This approach can enable the agent to make informed decisions about the uncertain quantity of interest in a flexible manner that accounts for multiple sources of heterogeneity involved in the opinions expressed by the experts in terms of the parametric family, the parameters of each component density, and also the mixing weights. Finally, the proposed models are employed for numerically computing quantile-based risk measures in a collective decision making context.

Keywords: opinion pooling; finite mixture models; expectation maximization algorithm; quantile-based risk measures; Internal OA fund (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25 pages
Date: 2021-06-09
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Published in Risks, 9, June, 2021, 9(6). ISSN: 2227-9091

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