Revealed-preference analysis and preference estimation from choice data: https://prestsoftware.com
Reach us at gerasimou AT outlook DOT com and ziman AT functor DOT sk.
Prest is a free and user-friendly desktop application for computational revealed preference analysis. It allows for processing choice datasets that economists, psychologists and consumer/marketing researchers often generate through experiments, market studies or surveys.
Pre-built Prest binaries can be downloaded from the landing page of the documentation at https://prestsoftware.com.
Dependencies:
- Rust 1.26 stable + Cargo
- Python 3.10+
Install the dependencies, compile everything and run:
$ pip install --user -r gui/requirements.txt
$ make runOptionally, work in a virtual environment:
$ python3 -m venv prest.env
$ source prest.env/bin/activate
# The next line is different from the previous installation command.
$ pip install -r gui/requirements.txt
$ make runThe build invoked by the commands above will, among other things, build the
HTML documentation, which is required for the help features of Prest. It will
also typecheck the code using mypy.
$ make test # quick test during development
$ make fulltest # includes long-running testsThe most comprehensive test is the integration
test,
which runs the whole pipeline including the Rust core on the example
datasets.
It is invoked in the course of the above commands; make test uses only the small
example datasets, while make fulltest uses all of them.
We build stand-alone binaries using PyInstaller. These build scripts are not published at the moment.
Prest consists of two separate programs: GUI (GNU GPL) and core (BSD-3-Clause). The full license texts can be found in the corresponding subdirectories of the source code.
If you use Prest in your academic work, please cite it as follows:
Georgios Gerasimou and Matúš Tejiščák (2018) Prest: Open-Source Software for Computational Revealed Preference Analysis, Journal of Open Source Software, 3(30), 1015, doi:10.21105.joss.01015.
Prest does not collect any data entered by its users.
The latest version of Prest will always be available online for free.