Combining Choice and Response Time Data: A Drift-Diffusion Model of Mobile Advertisements

Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2023.4738

References

  • Alili L, Patie P, Pedersen JL (2005) Representations of the first hitting time density of an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process. Stochastic Models 21(4):967–980.CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Alós-Ferrer C (2018) A dual-process diffusion model. J. Behav. Decision Making 31(2):203–218.CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Alós-Ferrer C, Fehr E, Netzer N (2021) Time will tell: Recovering preferences when choices are noisy. J. Political Econom. 129(6):1828–1877.CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Baldassi C, Cerreia-Vioglio S, Maccheroni F, Marinacci M, Pirazzini M (2020) A behavioral characterization of the drift diffusion model and its multialternative extension to choice under time pressure. Management Sci. 66(11):5075–5093.Google Scholar
  • Block H, Marschak J (1959) Random orderings and stochastic theories of responses. Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers, 289. https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/cowles-discussion-paper-series/289.Google Scholar
  • Bogacz R, Brown E, Moehlis J, Holmes P, Cohen JD (2006) The physics of optimal decision making: A formal analysis of models of performance in two-alternative forced-choice tasks. Psych. Rev. 113(4):700–765.CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Busemeyer JR, Townsend JT (1992) Fundamental derivations from decision field theory. Math. Social Sci. 23(3):255–282.CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Callaway F, Rangel A, Griffiths T (2020) Fixation patterns in simple choice reflect optimal information sampling. PLoS Comput. Biology 17(3):e1008863.CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Chiong K, Chen R (2017) An empirical model of mobile advertising platforms. Working paper, University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas.Google Scholar
  • Clithero JA (2018a) Improving out-of-sample predictions using response times and a model of the decision process. J. Econom. Behav. Organ. 148:344–375.CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Clithero JA (2018b) Response times in economics: Looking through the lens of sequential sampling models. J. Econom. Psych. 69:61–86.CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Crawford GS, Shum M (2005) Uncertainty and learning in pharmaceutical demand. Econometrica 73(4):1137–1173.CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Drugowitsch J (2016) Fast and accurate Monte Carlo sampling of first-passage times from wiener diffusion models. Sci. Rep. 6:20490.CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Dukes AJ, Liu Q, Shuai J (2022) Skippable Ads: Interactive advertising on digital media platforms. Marketing Sci. 41(3):528–547.Google Scholar
  • Echenique F, Saito K (2017) Response time and utility. J. Econom. Behav. Organ. 139:49–59.CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Erdem T, Keane MP (1996) Decision-making under uncertainty: Capturing dynamic brand choice processes in turbulent consumer goods markets. Marketing Sci. 15(1):1–20.LinkGoogle Scholar
  • Fehr E, Rangel A (2011) Neuroeconomic foundations of economic choice—recent advances. J. Econom. Perspect. 25(4):3–30.CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Fisher G (2021) Intertemporal choices are causally influenced by fluctuations in visual attention. Management Sci. 67(8):4961–4981.LinkGoogle Scholar
  • Frydman C, Krajbich I (2022) Using response times to infer others’ private information: An application to information cascades. Management Sci. 68(4):2970–2986.Google Scholar
  • Frydman C, Nave G (2016) Extrapolative beliefs in perceptual and economic decisions: Evidence of a common mechanism. Management Sci. 63(7):2340–2352.LinkGoogle Scholar
  • Fudenberg D, Newey W, Strack P, Strzalecki T (2020) Testing the drift-diffusion model. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 67(1):33141–33148.CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Fudenberg D, Strack P, Strzalecki T (2018) Speed, accuracy, and the optimal timing of choices. Amer. Econom. Rev. 108:3651–3684.CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Gold JI, Shadlen MN (2002) Banburismus and the brain: Decoding the relationship between sensory stimuli, decisions, and reward. Neuron 36(2):299–308.CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Gold JI, Shadlen MN (2007) The neural basis of decision making. Annual Rev. Neuroscience 30:535–574.CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Gossner O, Steiner J, Stewart C (2021) Attention please! Econometrica 89(4):1717–1751.CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Gwinn R, Leber AB, Krajbich I (2019) The spillover effects of attentional learning on value-based choice. Cognition 182:6–11.CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Haaijer R, Kamakura W, Wedel M (2000) Response latencies in the analysis of conjoint choice experiments. J. Marketing Res. 37(3):376–382.CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Hare TA, Schultz W, Camerer CF, O’Doherty JP, Rangel A (2011) Transformation of stimulus value signals into motor commands during simple choice. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 108(44):18120–18125.CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Hasson U, Landesman O, Knappmeyer B, Vallines I, Rubin N, Heeger DJ (2008) Neurocinematics: The neuroscience of film. Projections 2(1):1–26.CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Hébert B, Woodford M (2023) Rational inattention when decisions take time. J. Econom. Theory 208:105612. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jet.2023.105612.Google Scholar
  • Hong H, Shum M (2006) Using price distributions to estimate search costs. RAND J. Econom. 37(2):257–275.CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Honka E (2014) Quantifying search and switching costs in the us auto insurance industry. RAND J. Econom. 45(4):847–884.CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Jeon YA, Son H, Chung AD, Drumwright ME (2019) Temporal certainty and skippable in-stream commercials: Effects of ad length, timer, and skip-ad button on irritation and skipping behavior. J. Interactive Marketing 47(1):144–158.CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Kaufman L (2014) Chasing Their Star, on YouTube. New York Times (February 1), https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/02/business/chasing-their-star-on-youtube.html.Google Scholar
  • Ke T, Villas-Boas M (2019) Optimal learning before choice. J. Econom. Theory 180:383–437.CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Konovalov A, Krajbich I (2019) Revealed strength of preference: Inference from response times, judgement and decision making. Working paper, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.Google Scholar
  • Krajbich I (2019) Accounting for attention in sequential sampling models of decision making. Current Opin. Psych. 29:6–11.Google Scholar
  • Krajbich I, Armel C, Rangel A (2010) Visual fixations and the computation and comparison of value in simple choice. Nature Neuroscience 13(10):1292.CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Krajbich I, Bartling B, Hare T, Fehr E (2015) Rethinking fast and slow based on a critique of reaction-time reverse inference. Nature Comm. 6:7455.CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Latimer KW, Yates JL, Meister MLR, Huk AC, Pillow JW (2015) Single-trial spike trains in parietal cortex reveal discrete steps during decision-making. Science 349(6244):184–187.Google Scholar
  • Lehmann E (1959) Testing Statistical Hypotheses, 1st ed. (Wiley, New York).Google Scholar
  • Lewis RA, Rao JM (2015) The unfavorable economics of measuring the returns to advertising. Quart. J. Econom. 130(4):1941–1973.CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Link SW (1992) The Wave Theory of Difference and Similarity (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., Mahwah, NJ).Google Scholar
  • Lu J, Hutchinson JW (2017) Split-second decisions during online information search: Static vs. dynamic decision thresholds for making the first click. Technical report, Wharton School of Business, Philadelphia.Google Scholar
  • Luce RD (1991) Response Times: Their Role in Inferring Elementary Mental Organization (Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK).CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Marley AAJ, Colonius H (1992) The “horse race” random utility model for choice probabilities and reaction times, and its compering risks interpretation. J. Math. Psych. 36(1):1–20.CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Mazurek ME, Roitman JD, Ditterich J, Shadlen MN (2003) A role for neural integrators in perceptual decision making. Cerebral Cortex 13(11):1257–1269.CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Mormann M, Navalpakkam V, Koch C, Rangel A (2012) Relative visual saliency differences induce sizable bias in consumer choice. J. Consumer Psych. 22:67–74.CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Morris S, Strack P (2019) The Wald problem and the relation of sequential sampling and ex-ante information costs. Preprint, submitted February 21, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2991567.Google Scholar
  • Norets A (2012) Estimation of dynamic discrete choice models using artificial neural network approximations. Econometric Rev. 31(1):84–106.CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Otter T, Allenby GM, Van Zandt T (2008) An integrated model of discrete choice and response time. J. Marketing Res. 45(5):593–607.CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Rao RC (1986) Estimating continuous time advertising-sales models. Marketing Sci. 5(2):125–142.LinkGoogle Scholar
  • Ratcliff R, McKoon G (2008) The diffusion decision model: Theory and data for two-choice decision tasks. Neural Comput. 20(4):873–922.CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Roitman J, Shadlen M (2002) Response of neurons in the lateral intraparietal area during a combined visual discrimination reaction time task. J. Neuroscience 22(21):9475–9489.CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Rustichini A (2021) Neural and normative theories of stochastic choice. Working paper, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.Google Scholar
  • Rustichini A, Domenech P, Civai C, Deyoung C (2023) Working memory and attention in choice. PLOS One. Forthcoming.Google Scholar
  • Seiler S, Pinna F (2017) Estimating search benefits from path-tracking data: Measurement and determinants. Marketing Sci. 36(4):565–589.LinkGoogle Scholar
  • Shadlen M, Shohamy D (2016) Decision making and sequential sampling from memory. Neuron 90:927–939.CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Shadlen MN, Hanks TD, Churchland AK, Kiani R, Yang T (2006) The speed and accuracy of a simple perceptual decision: A mathematical primer. Doya K, Ishii S, Pouget A, Rao R, eds. Bayesian Brain Probabilistic Approaches to Neural Coding (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA), 201–236.CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Shapiro BT, Hitsch GJ, Tuchman AE (2021) TV advertising effectiveness and profitability: Generalizable results from 288 brands. Economterica 89(4):1855–1879.Google Scholar
  • Smith PL (2000) Stochastic dynamic models of response time and accuracy: A foundational primer. J. Math. Psych. 44(3):408–463.CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Smith S, Webb R, Krajbich I (2019) Estimating the dynamic role of attention via random utility. J. Econom. Sci. Assoc. 5(1):97–111.CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Tajima S, Drugowitsch J, Patel N, Pouget A (2019) Optimal policy for multi-alternative decisions. Nature Neuroscience 22(9):1503–1511.Google Scholar
  • Teoh YY, Yao Z, Cunningham WA, Hutcherson CA (2020) Attentional priorities drive effects of time pressure on altruistic choice. Nature Comm. 11(1):3534.Google Scholar
  • Tusche A, Hutcherson CA (2018) Cognitive regulation alters social and dietary choice by changing attribute representations in domain-general and domain-specific brain circuits. eLife 7(1):e31185.CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Ursu R, Wang Q, Chintagunta P (2018) Search duration. Marketing Sci. 39(5):849–871.Google Scholar
  • Usher M, McClelland JL (2001) The time course of perceptual choice: The leaky, competing accumulator model. Psych. Rev. 108(3):550–592.CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • van Smeden M, de Groot JA, Moons KG, Collins GS, Altman DG, Eijkemans MJ, Reitsma JB (2016) No rationale for 1 variable per 10 events criterion for binary logistic regression analysis. BMC Medical Res. Methodology 16(1):163.CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Vittinghoff E, McCulloch CE (2007) Relaxing the rule of ten events per variable in logistic and cox regression. Amer. J. Epidemiology 165(6):710–718.CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Wald A (1973) Sequential Analysis (Wiley, New York).Google Scholar
  • Wang XJ (2002) Probabilistic decision making by slow reverberation in cortical circuits. Neuron 36(5):955–968.CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Webb R (2019) The (neural) dynamics of stochastic choice. Management Sci. 65:230–255.LinkGoogle Scholar
  • Webb R, Glimcher PW, Louie K (2021) The normalization of consumer valuations: Context-dependent preferences from neurobiological constraints. Management Sci. 67(1):93–125.LinkGoogle Scholar
  • Wiecki TV, Sofer I, Frank MJ (2013) HDDM: Hierarchical Bayesian estimation of the drift-diffusion model in python. Frontiers Neuroinformatics 7:14.CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Woodford M (2014) Stochastic choice: An optimizing neuroeconomic model. Amer. Econom. Rev. 104(5):495–500.CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Woodford M (2016) Optimal evidence accumulation and stochastic choice. Working paper, Columbia University, New York.Google Scholar
INFORMS site uses cookies to store information on your computer. Some are essential to make our site work; Others help us improve the user experience. By using this site, you consent to the placement of these cookies. Please read our Privacy Statement to learn more.