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Eliciting Consumer Preferences Using Robust Adaptive Choice Questionnaires
February 2008 (vol. 20 no. 2)
pp. 145-155
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Jacob Abernethy, Theodoros Evgeniou, Olivier Toubia, Jean-Philippe Vert, "Eliciting Consumer Preferences Using Robust Adaptive Choice Questionnaires," IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 145-155, February, 2008.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/TKDE.2007.190632,
author = {Jacob Abernethy and Theodoros Evgeniou and Olivier Toubia and Jean-Philippe Vert},
title = {Eliciting Consumer Preferences Using Robust Adaptive Choice Questionnaires},
journal ={IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering},
volume = {20},
number = {2},
issn = {1041-4347},
year = {2008},
pages = {145-155},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TKDE.2007.190632},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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JO - IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
TI - Eliciting Consumer Preferences Using Robust Adaptive Choice Questionnaires
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A1 - Jacob Abernethy,
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A1 - Jean-Philippe Vert,
PY - 2008
KW - Marketing
KW - Machine learning
KW - Statistical
KW - Interactive systems
KW - Personalization
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We propose a framework for designing adaptive choice-based conjoint questionnaires that are robust to response error. It is developed based on a combination of experimental design and statistical learning theory principles. We implement and test a specific case of this framework using Regularization Networks. We also formalize within this framework the polyhedral methods recently proposed in marketing. We use simulations as well as an online market research experiment with 500 participants to compare the proposed method to benchmark methods. Both experiments show that the proposed adaptive questionnaires outperform existing ones in most cases. This work also indicates the potential of using machine learning methods in marketing.

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Index Terms:
Marketing, Machine learning, Statistical, Interactive systems, Personalization, Knowledge acquisition
Citation:
Jacob Abernethy, Theodoros Evgeniou, Olivier Toubia, Jean-Philippe Vert, "Eliciting Consumer Preferences Using Robust Adaptive Choice Questionnaires," IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 145-155, Feb. 2008, doi:10.1109/TKDE.2007.190632
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