bayprior - Bayesian Prior Elicitation and Diagnostics for Clinical Trials
A toolkit for constructing, validating, and justifying
Bayesian priors in clinical trial settings. Implements expert
elicitation via quantile matching, the roulette method, and
moment matching across six distribution families, linear and
logarithmic expert pooling, prior-data conflict diagnostics
including the Box p-value, surprise index, information
divergence, and Mahalanobis distance, sensitivity analyses with
tornado and influence heatmap plots, sceptical, robust, and
power priors, and automated prior justification reports.
Includes a fully modular 'Shiny' application for interactive
use. Methods based on O'Hagan et al. (2006,
ISBN:9780470029886), Box (1980) <doi:10.2307/2982063>, Oakley
and O'Hagan (2010) <https://tonyohagan.co.uk/shelf/>, Schmidli
et al. (2014) <doi:10.1111/biom.12242>, Ibrahim and Chen (2000)
<doi:10.1214/ss/1009212673>, Spiegelhalter et al. (1994)
<doi:10.2307/2983527>.