Kaplan Brent A, Gilroy Shawn P, Reed Derek D, Koffarnus Mikhail N, Hursh Steven R
1Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1 Riverside Circle, Roanoke, VA 24016 USA.
2Department of Psychology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA USA.
Perspect Behav Sci. 2018 Dec 12;42(1):163-180. doi: 10.1007/s40614-018-00187-7. eCollection 2019 Mar.
: Behavioral Economic Easy Demand, a novel package for performing behavioral economic analyses, is introduced and evaluated. extends the statistical program to facilitate many of the analyses performed in studies of behavioral economic demand. The package supports commonly used options for modeling operant demand and performs data screening, fits models of demand, and calculates numerous measures relevant to applied behavioral economists. The free and open source package is compared to commercially available software (i.e., GraphPad Prism™) using peer-reviewed and simulated data. The results of this study indicated that provides results consistent with commonly used commercial software but provides a wider range of methods and functionality desirable to behavioral economic researchers. A brief overview of the package is presented, its functionality is demonstrated, and considerations for its use are discussed.
介绍并评估了“行为经济简易需求”,这是一个用于进行行为经济分析的新软件包。它扩展了统计程序,以方便在行为经济需求研究中进行许多分析。该软件包支持用于对操作性需求进行建模的常用选项,并执行数据筛选、拟合需求模型以及计算与应用行为经济学家相关的众多指标。使用同行评审和模拟数据,将这个免费的开源软件包与商业可用软件(即GraphPad Prism™)进行了比较。这项研究的结果表明,该软件包提供的结果与常用商业软件一致,但提供了行为经济研究人员所需的更广泛的方法和功能。本文简要概述了该软件包,展示了其功能,并讨论了使用时的注意事项。