Dynamic Online Pricing with Incomplete Information Using Multiarmed Bandit Experiments
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dynamic pricing; e-commerce; online experiments; machine learning; multiarmed bandits; partial identification; minimax regret; nonparametric econometrics; A/B testing; field experiments;All these keywords.
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