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  <dc:title>Multi-Armed Bandit Approaches to Pricing Experiments</dc:title>
  <dc:title>R package PricingBandits version 2.0.0</dc:title>
  <dc:description>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" &lt;doi:10.1287/mksc.2022.0247&gt;. 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.</dc:description>
  <dc:type>Software</dc:type>
  <dc:relation>Depends: R (&gt;= 3.5.0)</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Imports: stats, Matrix, hash, nloptr, MASS, dplyr, TruncatedNormal,
R.utils</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Suggests: testthat (&gt;= 3.0.0), knitr, rmarkdown, ggplot2</dc:relation>
  <dc:creator>Ian N. Weaver &lt;weaver.n.ian@gmail.com&gt;</dc:creator>
  <dc:publisher>Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)</dc:publisher>
  <dc:contributor>Ian N. Weaver [aut, cre],
  Vineet Kumar [aut],
  Lalit Jain [aut]</dc:contributor>
  <dc:rights>MIT + file LICENSE (https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=PricingBandits/LICENSE)</dc:rights>
  <dc:date>2026-09-09</dc:date>
  <dc:format>application/tgz</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=PricingBandits</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.PricingBandits</dc:identifier>
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