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PricingBandits

Multi-Armed Bandit Approaches to Pricing Experiments

Implements multi-armed bandit approaches for pricing experiments with an unknown demand curve, as developed in Weaver, Kumar, and Jain, "Nonparametric Pricing Bandits Leveraging Informational Externalities to Learn the Demand Curve" <doi:10.1287/mksc.2022.0247>. Includes Upper Confidence Bound (UCB) and Thompson Sampling (TS) baselines, Gaussian process variants ('GP-UCB', 'GP-TS'), monotonic Gaussian process variants that constrain demand to be weakly decreasing in price, and heterogeneous-noise extensions. The willingness-to-pay distribution is fully user-specified via a vector of consumer valuations, so any demand environment can be simulated or replayed.

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2.0.0 rolling linux/jammy R-4.5 PricingBandits_2.0.0.tar.gz 123.2 KiB
2.0.0 rolling linux/noble R-4.5 PricingBandits_2.0.0.tar.gz 123.2 KiB
2.0.0 rolling source/ R- PricingBandits_2.0.0.tar.gz 116.0 KiB
2.0.0 latest linux/jammy R-4.5 PricingBandits_2.0.0.tar.gz 123.2 KiB
2.0.0 latest linux/noble R-4.5 PricingBandits_2.0.0.tar.gz 123.2 KiB
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2.0.0 2026-04-23 source/ R- PricingBandits_2.0.0.tar.gz 0 B

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