According to a phenomenon known as "the wisdom of the crowds," 
    combining point estimates from multiple judges often provides a 
    more accurate aggregate estimate than using a point estimate from
    a single judge. However, if the judges use shared information in 
    their estimates, the simple average will over-emphasize this common
    component at the expense of the judges’ private information. 
    Asa Palley & Ville Satopää (2021) "Boosting the Wisdom of Crowds
    Within a Single Judgment Problem: Selective Averaging Based on Peer Predictions"
    <https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=3504286> proposes
    a procedure for calculating a weighted average of the judges’ individual
    estimates such that resulting aggregate estimate appropriately combines
    the judges' collective information within a single estimation problem. 
    The authors use both simulation and data from six experimental studies
    to illustrate that the weighting procedure outperforms existing averaging-like
    methods, such as the equally weighted average, trimmed average, and median.
    This aggregate estimate -- know as "the knowledge-weighted estimate" --
    inputs a) judges' estimates of a continuous outcome (E) and 
    b) predictions of others' average estimate of this outcome (P).  
    In this R-package, the function knowledge_weighted_estimate(E,P) 
    implements the knowledge-weighted estimate. Its use is illustrated
    with a simple stylized example and on real-world experimental data.

Performs multivariate meta-analysis for high-dimensional metabolomics data for integrating and collectively analysing individual-level data generated from multiple studies as well as for combining summary estimates. This approach accounts for correlation between outcomes, considers variability within and between studies, handles missing values and uses shrinkage estimation to allow for high dimensionality. A detailed vignette with example datasets and code to prepare data and analyses are available on <https://bookdown.org/a2delivera/MetaHD/>.