stratEst: a software package for strategy frequency estimation

Dvorak, F. (forthcoming). stratEst: a software package for strategy frequency estimation. Journal of the Economic Science Association.

15 Pages Posted: 25 Aug 2020 Last revised: 7 Aug 2023

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Fabian Dvorak

University of Konstanz - Faculty of Economics and Statistics; Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology

Date Written: July 25, 2023

Abstract

stratEst is a software package for strategy frequency estimation in the freely available statistical computing environment R (R Development Core Team, 2022). The package aims at minimizing the start-up costs of running the modern strategy frequency estimation techniques used in experimental economics. Strategy frequency estimation (Stahl & Wilson, 1994, 1995) models the choices of participants in an economic experiment as a finite mixture of individual decision strategies. The parameters of the model describe the associated behavior of each strategy and its frequency in the data. stratEst provides a convenient and flexible framework for strategy frequency estimation, allowing the user to customize, store and reuse sets of candidate strategies. The package includes useful functions for data processing and simulation, strategy programming, model estimation, parameter testing, model checking, and model selection.

Keywords: strategy frequency estimation, software, repeated games

JEL Classification: C72, C87, C90

Suggested Citation

Dvorak, Fabian, stratEst: a software package for strategy frequency estimation (July 25, 2023). Dvorak, F. (forthcoming). stratEst: a software package for strategy frequency estimation. Journal of the Economic Science Association., Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3656209 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3656209

Fabian Dvorak (Contact Author)

University of Konstanz - Faculty of Economics and Statistics ( email )

Universitaetsstr. 10
78457 Konstanz
Germany

Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology ( email )

Überlandstrasse 133
Dübendorf, 8600
Switzerland

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