Simulation experimental design Firm Choice Dummy Model

Published

March 24, 2026

The following code shows the selected priors and the corresponding WTP values as well as the deterministic choices

The simulation has 300 respondents and 2000 runs. The simulation itself took 30M 43.8969999999999S .

Statistics and power

Here you see the statistics of the parameters for 2000 runs.

kable(all_designs[["summaryall"]] ,digits = 3) %>% kable_styling()
parname utilitybayesian.n utilityfixed.n truepar utilitybayesian.mean utilityfixed.mean utilitybayesian.sd utilityfixed.sd utilitybayesian.min utilityfixed.min utilitybayesian.max utilityfixed.max utilitybayesian.range utilityfixed.range utilitybayesian.se utilityfixed.se utilitybayesian.median utilitybayesian.skew utilitybayesian.kurtosis utilityfixed.median utilityfixed.skew utilityfixed.kurtosis
bflooddummy1 2000 2000 1.000 1.009 1.005 0.200 0.212 0.228 0.416 1.728 1.775 1.500 1.359 0.004 0.005 1.002 0.121 0.165 0.999 0.113 -0.005
bflooddummy2 2000 2000 1.500 1.505 1.511 0.206 0.236 0.823 0.640 2.175 2.422 1.352 1.782 0.005 0.005 1.502 0.074 -0.173 1.508 0.050 0.116
bheatdummy1 2000 2000 2.700 2.729 2.720 0.220 0.250 1.974 1.855 3.597 3.681 1.624 1.826 0.005 0.006 2.722 0.247 0.292 2.721 0.068 0.091
bheatdummy2 2000 2000 4.650 4.721 4.727 0.425 0.454 3.696 3.784 12.952 13.641 9.256 9.857 0.010 0.010 4.676 4.187 70.190 4.678 7.079 125.809
btax 2000 2000 -0.016 -0.017 -0.016 0.013 0.012 -0.058 -0.053 0.028 0.025 0.086 0.078 0.000 0.000 -0.016 0.046 0.071 -0.017 0.028 0.008
boptout 2000 2000 1.000 1.003 1.001 0.172 0.162 0.487 0.474 1.601 1.587 1.114 1.113 0.004 0.004 1.004 0.081 -0.178 0.997 0.076 0.111
rob_pval0_bflooddummy1 2000 2000 NA 0.000 0.000 0.007 0.002 0.000 0.000 0.260 0.040 0.260 0.040 0.000 0.000 0.000 33.788 1280.189 0.000 10.917 142.353
rob_pval0_bflooddummy2 2000 2000 NA 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.010 0.000 0.010 0.000 0.000 0.000 NaN NaN 0.000 44.654 1993.003
rob_pval0_bheatdummy1 2000 2000 NA 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 NaN NaN 0.000 NaN NaN
rob_pval0_bheatdummy2 2000 2000 NA 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 NaN NaN 0.000 NaN NaN
rob_pval0_btax 2000 2000 NA 0.278 0.282 0.281 0.284 0.000 0.000 1.000 1.000 1.000 1.000 0.006 0.006 0.180 0.977 -0.196 0.170 0.930 -0.350
rob_pval0_boptout 2000 2000 NA 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 NaN NaN 0.000 NaN NaN
all_designs[["powa"]]
$utilitybayesian

FALSE  TRUE 
 73.3  26.7 

$utilityfixed

FALSE  TRUE 
 74.8  25.2 

Illustration of simulated parameter values

To facilitate interpretation and judgement of the different designs, we plot the densities of simulated parameter values from the different experimental designs.

$bflooddummy1


$bflooddummy2


$bheatdummy1


$bheatdummy2


$btax


$boptout