team_name: Epiforecasts / London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine model_name: EpiExpert Direct (epiforecasts) model_abbr: epiforecasts-EpiExpert_direct model_contributors: - name: Nikos Bosse email: nikos.bosse@lshtm.ac.uk - name: Sam Abbott email: sam.abbott@lshtm.ac.uk - name: Sebastian Funk website_url: https://epiforecasts.io/ license: mit team_model_designation: other methods: Mean ensemble of human predictions team_funding: Funding by the Health Protection Research Unit (grant code NIHR200908) data_inputs: ECDC deaths and cases citation: https://github.com/epiforecasts/covid-german-forecasts methods_long: Forecasts from experts and non-experts are elicited using a shinyApp. Individuals currently make forecasts by choosing a distribution and specifying the median and width of that predictive distribution for evey forecast horizon. Forecasts are collected and a mean ensemble is formed.