Method Landscape

Every method in PrefGraph, organized by input data type and output type. This table is the roadmap for choosing the right theory page before choosing an API call.

Data Type

Test (pass/fail)

Score (0 to 1)

Recover (vector/function)

Structure (property)
Budget Choice
BehaviorLog
(prices x quantities)

Theory
Tutorial
GARP - Varian (1982)
WARP - Samuelson (1938)
SARP - Richter (1966)
HARP - Varian (1983)
GAPP - Deb et al. (2023)
Acyclical P - Varian (1982)
Quasilinearity - C&E Ch 9
Integrability - Slutsky
Additive separability - C&E Ch 9
Gross substitutes - C&E Ch 10
Separability - C&E (2016)
Law of demand - C&E Ch 10
CCEI/AEI - Afriat (1967)
VEI - Varian (1990)
MPI - Echenique et al. (2011)
Houtman-Maks - H&M (1985)
Swaps - A&B (2015)
Min cost - Dean & Martin (2016)
Bronars power - Bronars (1987)
Utility - Afriat (1967)
Value function - Afriat (1967)
Demand prediction
CV - Vartia (1983)
EV - Vartia (1983)
Expenditure function
Cost function
Slutsky matrix - C&E Ch 6
Hicksian demand - C&E Ch 10
Substitution matrix
Separability partitions
Quasilinear structure
Additive structure
Spatial/ideal point - C&E Ch 11
Menu Choice
(menus x choices)

3 subtypes by data:
1. Deterministic
MenuChoiceLog
2. Stochastic
StochasticChoiceLog
3. Risk/Lotteries
RiskChoiceLog

Theory
Tutorial
Deterministic
WARP - Samuelson (1938)
SARP - Richter (1966)
Congruence - Richter (1966)
WARP-LA - MNO (2012)
Attention filter - MNO (2012)
Attention overload
Status quo bias

Stochastic
RAM - Cattaneo et al. (2020)
RUM - Block & Marschak (1960)
McFadden axioms
IIA - Luce (1959)
Regularity - Debreu (1960)
Stochastic transitivity
Context effects

Risk
Expected utility - vNM (1944)
Rank-dependent utility
Menu HM - H&M (1985)
Distance to RUM
Predictive success
Deterministic
Ordinal utility
Consideration sets - MNO (2012)
Preference with attention

Stochastic
Attention probabilities
Salience weights
Choice probabilities
Luce model - Luce (1959)
RUM distribution
Bradley-Terry

Risk
Risk profile
Attention bounds
RAM parameters
Production
ProductionLog
(inputs x outputs)
Profit maximization - Varian (1984)
Cost minimization
Technical efficiency
-
Returns to scale
Intertemporal
(dated amounts)
Exponential discounting - EIS (2020)
Quasi-hyperbolic - Laibson (1997)
Present bias
-
Discount factor
-

Abbreviations

  • C&E: Chambers & Echenique (2016), Revealed Preference Theory

  • MNO: Masatlioglu, Nakajima & Ozbay (2012, AER)

  • EIS: Echenique, Imai & Saito (2020, AEJ: Micro)

  • A&B: Apesteguia & Ballester (2015, JPE)

  • H&M: Houtman & Maks (1985)

  • vNM: von Neumann & Morgenstern (1944)

See References for papers cited in the implementation.