An R package containing commonly used functions for analyzing behavioral economic discounting data.
The package supports scoring of the 27-Item Monetary Choice Questionnaire (see Kaplan et al., 2016), calculating k values (and Area Under the Curve metrics) from indifference points using nonlinear regression (Mazur’s simple hyperbola and exponential), and scoring of the minute discounting task (see Koffarnus & Bickel, 2014) using the Qualtrics 5-trial discounting template (see the Qualtrics Minute Discounting User Guide), which is also available as a .qsf file in this package.
Currently, this version (0.3.2) appears stable. I encourage you to use it but be aware that, as with any software release, there might be (unknown) bugs present. I’ve tried hard to make this version usable while including the core functionality (described more below). However, if you find issues or would like to contribute, please open an issue on my GitHub page or email me.
You may also use these functions in the Shinybeez web application and also found at the GitHub page.
If you use this package in your own work, please consider citing the package:
Kaplan, B. A. (2025). beezdiscounting: Behavioral Economic Easy Discounting. R package version 0.3.2, https://github.com/brentkaplan/beezdiscounting
You can also find the latest citation using citation("beezdemand")
The latest stable version of beezdiscounting
(currently v.0.3.2) can
be found on CRAN
and installed using the following command. The first time you install
the package, you may be asked to select a CRAN mirror. Simply select the
mirror geographically closest to you.
install.packages("beezdiscounting")
library(beezdiscounting)
To install a stable release directly from
GitHub, first install
and load the devtools
package. Then, use install_github
to install
the package and associated vignette. You don’t need to download
anything directly from
GitHub, as you should
use the following instructions:
install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("brentkaplan/beezdiscounting")
library(beezdiscounting)
An example dataset of responses on the 27-Item Monetary Choice
Questionnaire is provided. This object is called mcq27
and is located
within the beezdiscounting
package. These data are the example data
used in the paper by Kaplan et al,
2016. Note the
format of the data, which is called “long format”. Long format data are
data structured such that repeated observations are stacked in multiple
rows, rather than across columns.
subjectid | questionid | response | |
---|---|---|---|
1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
2 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
3 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
4 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
5 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
6 | 1 | 6 | 0 |
7 | 1 | 7 | 1 |
28 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
29 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
30 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
31 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
32 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
33 | 2 | 6 | 0 |
34 | 2 | 7 | 1 |
The first column contains the subject id. The second column contains the question id. The third column contains the response (0 for smaller sooner, 1 for larger later)
beezdiscounting
includes several helper functions to reshape data.
Long format data are widened such that subject id is the first column and each subsequent column contains the response associated with the question (specified as column names).
wide <- long_to_wide_mcq(generate_data_mcq(2))
knitr::kable(wide[, c(1:5, 24:28)], caption = "Wide Format Data")
subjectid | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Wide Format Data
Wide data (see example of wide data above) are made long such that subject id is in the first column, question id (inferred from the column names from the wide format dataframe) is the second column, and the response is the third column.
long <- wide_to_long_mcq(wide, items = 27)
knitr::kable(long[c(1:5, 28:32), ], caption = "Long Format Data")
subjectid | questionid | response |
---|---|---|
1 | 1 | 1 |
1 | 2 | 1 |
1 | 3 | 1 |
1 | 4 | 1 |
1 | 5 | 0 |
2 | 1 | 1 |
2 | 2 | 1 |
2 | 3 | 1 |
2 | 4 | 0 |
2 | 5 | 1 |
Long Format Data
A different ‘type’ of wide data is that used in the 27-Item Monetary
Choice Questionnaire Automated Excel Scorer (Kaplan et al,
2016). In this
format, the first column is the question id and each subsequent column
represents a subject (as the column name) and the response in rows (see
the example below). This function takes the data from that format and
converts it to the format needed for beezdiscounting
functions.
knitr::kable(wide_excel[c(1:5, 22:27), ],
caption = "Format Expected in the 27-Item MCQ Excel Scorer")
questionid | 1 | 2 |
---|---|---|
1 | 1 | 1 |
2 | 1 | 1 |
3 | 1 | 1 |
4 | 1 | 0 |
5 | 0 | 1 |
22 | 1 | 0 |
23 | 1 | 1 |
24 | 1 | 1 |
25 | 1 | 1 |
26 | 1 | 1 |
27 | 0 | 1 |
Format Expected in the 27-Item MCQ Excel Scorer
long_excel <- wide_to_long_mcq_excel(wide_excel)
knitr::kable(long_excel[c(1:5, 28:32), ], caption = "Long Format")
subjectid | questionid | response |
---|---|---|
1 | 1 | 1 |
1 | 2 | 1 |
1 | 3 | 1 |
1 | 4 | 1 |
1 | 5 | 0 |
2 | 1 | 1 |
2 | 2 | 1 |
2 | 3 | 1 |
2 | 4 | 0 |
2 | 5 | 1 |
Long Format
Data can be manipulated from long form into a form used by the 27-Item Monetary Choice Questionnaire Automated Excel Scorer.
wide_excel <- long_to_wide_mcq_excel(long_excel)
knitr::kable(wide_excel[c(1:5, 22:27), ],
caption = "Format Expected in the 27-Item MCQ Excel Scorer")
questionid | 1 | 2 |
---|---|---|
1 | 1 | 1 |
2 | 1 | 1 |
3 | 1 | 1 |
4 | 1 | 0 |
5 | 0 | 1 |
22 | 1 | 0 |
23 | 1 | 1 |
24 | 1 | 1 |
25 | 1 | 1 |
26 | 1 | 1 |
27 | 0 | 1 |
Format Expected in the 27-Item MCQ Excel Scorer
Generate data specifying reproducibility and proportion of NA
responses.
## fake data with no missing values
fake_data_no_missing <- generate_data_mcq(n_ids = 2, n_items = 27,
seed = 1234, prop_na = 0)
knitr::kable(fake_data_no_missing, caption = "Fake Data - No Missings")
subjectid | questionid | response |
---|---|---|
1 | 1 | 1 |
1 | 2 | 1 |
1 | 3 | 1 |
1 | 4 | 1 |
1 | 5 | 0 |
1 | 6 | 1 |
1 | 7 | 0 |
1 | 8 | 0 |
1 | 9 | 0 |
1 | 10 | 1 |
1 | 11 | 1 |
1 | 12 | 1 |
1 | 13 | 1 |
1 | 14 | 0 |
1 | 15 | 1 |
1 | 16 | 1 |
1 | 17 | 1 |
1 | 18 | 0 |
1 | 19 | 1 |
1 | 20 | 1 |
1 | 21 | 1 |
1 | 22 | 1 |
1 | 23 | 1 |
1 | 24 | 1 |
1 | 25 | 1 |
1 | 26 | 1 |
1 | 27 | 0 |
2 | 1 | 1 |
2 | 2 | 1 |
2 | 3 | 1 |
2 | 4 | 0 |
2 | 5 | 1 |
2 | 6 | 0 |
2 | 7 | 0 |
2 | 8 | 0 |
2 | 9 | 1 |
2 | 10 | 0 |
2 | 11 | 1 |
2 | 12 | 1 |
2 | 13 | 0 |
2 | 14 | 1 |
2 | 15 | 0 |
2 | 16 | 1 |
2 | 17 | 1 |
2 | 18 | 1 |
2 | 19 | 0 |
2 | 20 | 0 |
2 | 21 | 0 |
2 | 22 | 0 |
2 | 23 | 1 |
2 | 24 | 1 |
2 | 25 | 1 |
2 | 26 | 1 |
2 | 27 | 1 |
Fake Data - No Missings
## fake data with missing values
fake_data_missing <- generate_data_mcq(n_ids = 2, n_items = 27,
seed = 1234, prop_na = .1)
knitr::kable(fake_data_missing, caption = "Fake Data - Missings")
subjectid | questionid | response |
---|---|---|
1 | 1 | 1 |
1 | 2 | NA |
1 | 3 | 1 |
1 | 4 | 1 |
1 | 5 | 0 |
1 | 6 | 1 |
1 | 7 | 0 |
1 | 8 | 0 |
1 | 9 | 0 |
1 | 10 | 1 |
1 | 11 | 1 |
1 | 12 | 1 |
1 | 13 | 1 |
1 | 14 | 0 |
1 | 15 | NA |
1 | 16 | 1 |
1 | 17 | 1 |
1 | 18 | 0 |
1 | 19 | 1 |
1 | 20 | 1 |
1 | 21 | 1 |
1 | 22 | 1 |
1 | 23 | 1 |
1 | 24 | 1 |
1 | 25 | 1 |
1 | 26 | 1 |
1 | 27 | 0 |
2 | 1 | 1 |
2 | 2 | 1 |
2 | 3 | 1 |
2 | 4 | 0 |
2 | 5 | 1 |
2 | 6 | 0 |
2 | 7 | 0 |
2 | 8 | 0 |
2 | 9 | 1 |
2 | 10 | 0 |
2 | 11 | NA |
2 | 12 | 1 |
2 | 13 | 0 |
2 | 14 | 1 |
2 | 15 | 0 |
2 | 16 | NA |
2 | 17 | 1 |
2 | 18 | 1 |
2 | 19 | 0 |
2 | 20 | 0 |
2 | 21 | 0 |
2 | 22 | NA |
2 | 23 | 1 |
2 | 24 | 1 |
2 | 25 | 1 |
2 | 26 | 1 |
2 | 27 | 1 |
Fake Data - Missings
MCQ data can be scored regularly and can also impute using various methods specified by Yeh et al, 2023
## normal scoring of data with no missing values
tbl1 <- score_mcq27(fake_data_no_missing)
subjectid | overall_k | small_k | medium_k | large_k | geomean_k |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 0.000158 | 0.000158 | 0.000158 | 0.000251 | 0.000185 |
2 | 0.000251 | 0.001562 | 0.004469 | 0.000158 | 0.001034 |
k Values
subjectid | overall_consistency | small_consistency | medium_consistency | large_consistency | composite_consistency |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 0.740741 | 0.666667 | 0.666667 | 1.000000 | 0.777778 |
2 | 0.629630 | 0.777778 | 0.555556 | 0.666667 | 0.666667 |
Consistency Scores
subjectid | overall_proportion | small_proportion | medium_proportion | large_proportion | impute_method |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 0.740741 | 0.666667 | 0.666667 | 0.888889 | none |
2 | 0.592593 | 0.555556 | 0.555556 | 0.666667 | none |
Proportions
## normal scoring of data with missings with no imputation
tbl2 <- score_mcq27(fake_data_missing)
subjectid | overall_k | small_k | medium_k | large_k | geomean_k |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | NA | 0.000158 | 0.000158 | NA | NA |
2 | NA | NA | NA | 0.000158 | NA |
k Values
subjectid | overall_consistency | small_consistency | medium_consistency | large_consistency | composite_consistency |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | NA | 0.666667 | 0.666667 | NA | NA |
2 | NA | NA | NA | 0.666667 | NA |
Consistency Scores
subjectid | overall_proportion | small_proportion | medium_proportion | large_proportion | impute_method |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | NA | 0.666667 | 0.666667 | NA | none |
2 | NA | NA | NA | 0.666667 | none |
Proportions
This approach (Group Geometric Mean) “…calculates the composite k when at least one of the three amount set ks is fully available” (Yeh et al, 2023)
tbl3 <- score_mcq27(fake_data_missing, impute_method = "GGM")
subjectid | overall_k | small_k | medium_k | large_k | geomean_k |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | NA | 0.000158 | 0.000158 | NA | 0.000158 |
2 | NA | NA | NA | 0.000158 | 0.000158 |
k Values
subjectid | overall_consistency | small_consistency | medium_consistency | large_consistency | composite_consistency |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | NA | 0.666667 | 0.666667 | NA | NA |
2 | NA | NA | NA | 0.666667 | NA |
Consistency Scores
subjectid | overall_proportion | small_proportion | medium_proportion | large_proportion | impute_method |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | NA | 0.666667 | 0.666667 | NA | GGM |
2 | NA | NA | NA | 0.666667 | GGM |
Proportions
This approach (Item Nearest Neighbor) “…replaces the missing value with the congruent non-missing responses to the items corresponding to the same k value” (Yeh et al, 2023)
tbl4 <- score_mcq27(fake_data_missing, impute_method = "INN")
subjectid | overall_k | small_k | medium_k | large_k | geomean_k |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 0.000158 | 0.000158 | 0.000158 | 0.000251 | 0.000185 |
2 | NA | NA | 0.063154 | 0.000158 | NA |
k Values
subjectid | overall_consistency | small_consistency | medium_consistency | large_consistency | composite_consistency |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 0.740741 | 0.666667 | 0.666667 | 1.000000 | 0.777778 |
2 | NA | NA | 0.666667 | 0.666667 | NA |
Consistency Scores
subjectid | overall_proportion | small_proportion | medium_proportion | large_proportion | impute_method |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 0.740741 | 0.666667 | 0.666667 | 0.888889 | INN |
2 | NA | NA | 0.444444 | 0.666667 | INN |
Proportions
This approach (Item Nearest Neighbor with Random) “… is identical to [INN no random component], except that when a missing response cannot be resolved, this datum will be randomly replaced with 0 or 1, corresponding to choosing immediate or delayed rewards, respectively” (Yeh et al, 2023)
tbl5 <- score_mcq27(fake_data_missing, impute_method = "INN",
random = TRUE)
subjectid | overall_k | small_k | medium_k | large_k | geomean_k |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 0.000158 | 0.000158 | 0.000158 | 0.000251 | 0.000185 |
2 | 0.000251 | 0.001562 | 0.063154 | 0.000158 | 0.002500 |
k Values
subjectid | overall_consistency | small_consistency | medium_consistency | large_consistency | composite_consistency |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 0.740741 | 0.666667 | 0.666667 | 1.000000 | 0.777778 |
2 | 0.592593 | 0.777778 | 0.666667 | 0.666667 | 0.703704 |
Consistency Scores
subjectid | overall_proportion | small_proportion | medium_proportion | large_proportion | impute_method |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 0.740741 | 0.666667 | 0.666667 | 0.888889 | INN with random |
2 | 0.555556 | 0.555556 | 0.444444 | 0.666667 | INN with random |
Proportions
You can also return a list when INN imputation with random is specified.
This is helpful to see what values replaced the missings (NA
s) in the
original dataset.
lst <- score_mcq27(fake_data_missing, impute_method = "INN",
random = TRUE, return_data = TRUE)
The scoring summary metric dataframe as before (access via
...$results
):
subjectid | overall_k | small_k | medium_k | large_k | geomean_k |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 0.000158 | 0.000158 | 0.000158 | 0.000251 | 0.000185 |
2 | 0.000251 | 0.001562 | 0.063154 | 0.000158 | 0.002500 |
k Values
subjectid | overall_consistency | small_consistency | medium_consistency | large_consistency | composite_consistency |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 0.740741 | 0.666667 | 0.666667 | 1.000000 | 0.777778 |
2 | 0.555556 | 0.666667 | 0.666667 | 0.666667 | 0.666667 |
Consistency Scores
subjectid | overall_proportion | small_proportion | medium_proportion | large_proportion | impute_method |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 0.740741 | 0.666667 | 0.666667 | 0.888889 | INN with random |
2 | 0.518519 | 0.444444 | 0.444444 | 0.666667 | INN with random |
Proportions
The original data and the new responses imputed (access via ...$data
):
subjectid | questionid | response | newresponse |
---|---|---|---|
1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
1 | 2 | NA | 1 |
1 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
1 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
1 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
1 | 6 | 1 | 1 |
1 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
1 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
1 | 9 | 0 | 0 |
1 | 10 | 1 | 1 |
1 | 11 | 1 | 1 |
1 | 12 | 1 | 1 |
1 | 13 | 1 | 1 |
1 | 14 | 0 | 0 |
1 | 15 | NA | 1 |
1 | 16 | 1 | 1 |
1 | 17 | 1 | 1 |
1 | 18 | 0 | 0 |
1 | 19 | 1 | 1 |
1 | 20 | 1 | 1 |
1 | 21 | 1 | 1 |
1 | 22 | 1 | 1 |
1 | 23 | 1 | 1 |
1 | 24 | 1 | 1 |
1 | 25 | 1 | 1 |
1 | 26 | 1 | 1 |
1 | 27 | 0 | 0 |
2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
2 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
2 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
2 | 5 | 1 | 1 |
2 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
2 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
2 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
2 | 9 | 1 | 1 |
2 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
2 | 11 | NA | 0 |
2 | 12 | 1 | 1 |
2 | 13 | 0 | 0 |
2 | 14 | 1 | 1 |
2 | 15 | 0 | 0 |
2 | 16 | NA | 0 |
2 | 17 | 1 | 1 |
2 | 18 | 1 | 1 |
2 | 19 | 0 | 0 |
2 | 20 | 0 | 0 |
2 | 21 | 0 | 0 |
2 | 22 | NA | 0 |
2 | 23 | 1 | 1 |
2 | 24 | 1 | 1 |
2 | 25 | 1 | 1 |
2 | 26 | 1 | 1 |
2 | 27 | 1 | 1 |
Original Data and Imputed Data
The data must be in a dataframe with the following columns: - id
:
participant ID - x
: delay - y
: indifference point
For example, the following data set is available in the package: dd_ip
knitr::kable(dd_ip[1:12, ], caption = "Indifference Point Data")
id | x | y |
---|---|---|
P1 | 1 | 0.8162505 |
P1 | 7 | 0.3908523 |
P1 | 30 | 0.0191631 |
P1 | 90 | 0.0990859 |
P1 | 180 | 0.0134581 |
P1 | 365 | 0.0035518 |
P2 | 1 | 0.5724503 |
P2 | 7 | 0.1652014 |
P2 | 30 | 0.0326867 |
P2 | 90 | 0.0802244 |
P2 | 180 | 0.0275921 |
P2 | 365 | 0.0247967 |
Indifference Point Data
The check_unsystematic()
function can be used to check whether the
data conform to the assumptions of the Johnson & Bickel (2008) method.
The function is designed to work with a single participant. As will
often be the case, you will want to run this for each unique participant
in the dataset as shown below:
unsys <- dd_ip |>
dplyr::group_split(id) |>
purrr::map_dfr(~ check_unsystematic(
dat = .x,
ll = 1, # LL specification
c1 = 0.2, # Criterion 1 threshold
c2 = 0.1 # Criterion 2 threshold
)) |>
dplyr::mutate(id = factor(id, levels = unique(dd_ip$id))) |>
dplyr::arrange(id) |>
dplyr::slice(1:5)
knitr::kable(unsys, caption = "Unsystematic Data Output")
id | c1_pass | c2_pass |
---|---|---|
P1 | TRUE | TRUE |
P2 | TRUE | TRUE |
P3 | TRUE | TRUE |
P4 | TRUE | TRUE |
P5 | TRUE | TRUE |
Unsystematic Data Output
The fit_dd()
function can be used to estimate k values from either
the simple hyperbola (Mazur, 1987) or exponential equation. The output
of this function can then be used in results_dd()
and plot_dd()
to
obtain a table of results and plots of data.
First use the fit_dd()
function to fit the data:
dd_fit <- fit_dd(
dat = dd_ip,
equation = "Hyperbolic",
method = "Two Stage"
)
Then use the results_dd()
function to get a table of results. The
results table automatically includes measures of Area Under the Curve
(AUC). Three different AUC measures are calculated:
-
auc_regular
: AUC calculated using the regular trapezoidal rule -
auc_log10
: AUC calculated using the trapezoidal rule on the log10-transformed x values (Borges et al., 2016) -
auc_ord
: AUC calculated using the trapezoidal rule on the ordinally transformed x values (Borges et al., 2016)
dd_results <- results_dd(dd_fit) |>
dplyr::mutate(id = factor(id, levels = unique(dd_ip$id))) |>
dplyr::arrange(id) |>
dplyr::slice(1:5)
knitr::kable(dd_results[, c(1:7, 21:22)], caption = "Parameter Estimates and Information")
method | id | term | estimate | std.error | statistic | p.value | conf_low | conf_high |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Two Stage | P1 | k | 0.2481617 | 0.0432495 | 5.737907 | 0.0022525 | 0.1369853 | 0.3593381 |
Two Stage | P2 | k | 0.7338717 | 0.0839848 | 8.738149 | 0.0003252 | 0.5179819 | 0.9497615 |
Two Stage | P3 | k | 0.5551845 | 0.0810197 | 6.852465 | 0.0010110 | 0.3469168 | 0.7634522 |
Two Stage | P4 | k | 0.2844655 | 0.0264744 | 10.744931 | 0.0001210 | 0.2164109 | 0.3525200 |
Two Stage | P5 | k | 1.0135883 | 0.0760710 | 13.324235 | 0.0000426 | 0.8180415 | 1.2091351 |
Parameter Estimates and Information
knitr::kable(dd_results[, c(1:3, 8:17)], caption = "Model Information")
method | id | term | sigma | isConv | finTol | logLik | AIC | BIC | deviance | df.residual | nobs | R2 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Two Stage | P1 | k | 0.0529456 | TRUE | 0 | 9.664278 | -15.32856 | -15.74504 | 0.0140162 | 5 | 6 | 0.9735088 |
Two Stage | P2 | k | 0.0324102 | TRUE | 0 | 12.609020 | -21.21804 | -21.63452 | 0.0052521 | 5 | 6 | 0.9769628 |
Two Stage | P3 | k | 0.0419241 | TRUE | 0 | 11.064704 | -18.12941 | -18.54589 | 0.0087881 | 5 | 6 | 0.9715690 |
Two Stage | P4 | k | 0.0278923 | TRUE | 0 | 13.509754 | -23.01951 | -23.43599 | 0.0038899 | 5 | 6 | 0.9917668 |
Two Stage | P5 | k | 0.0205973 | TRUE | 0 | 15.328915 | -26.65783 | -27.07431 | 0.0021212 | 5 | 6 | 0.9886979 |
Model Information
knitr::kable(dd_results[, c(1:2, 18:20)], caption = "Area Under the Curve Values")
method | id | auc_regular | auc_log10 | auc_ord |
---|---|---|---|---|
Two Stage | P1 | 0.0508842 | 0.2347151 | 0.1864921 |
Two Stage | P2 | 0.0482794 | 0.1462015 | 0.1208656 |
Two Stage | P3 | 0.0409701 | 0.1685302 | 0.1352153 |
Two Stage | P4 | 0.0313241 | 0.2169982 | 0.1664288 |
Two Stage | P5 | 0.0169814 | 0.1126664 | 0.0867586 |
Area Under the Curve Values
Finally, use the plot_dd()
function to plot the data:
plot_dd(
fit_dd_object = dd_fit,
xlabel = "Delay (days)", # Specify x label
ylabel = "Indifference Point", # Specify y label
title = "Two Stage Plot", # Specify plot title
logx = TRUE # Specify log scale for x axis
)
dd_out <- calc_dd(five.fivetrial_dd)
knitr::kable(dd_out, caption = "Scoring Summary of the 5.5 Trial Delay Discounting Task")
ResponseId | index | q | firstclick | lastclick | pagesubmit | totalclicks | response | attentionflag | kval | ed50 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | I16 | 1 | 1.761 | 1.761 | 3.337 | 1 | ll | No | 0.0067058 | 149.1249275 |
1 | I24 | 2 | 7.729 | 7.729 | 8.457 | 1 | ss | No | 0.0067058 | 149.1249275 |
1 | I20 | 3 | 1.558 | 1.558 | 3.377 | 1 | ll | No | 0.0067058 | 149.1249275 |
1 | I22 | 4 | 2.333 | 3.949 | 4.501 | 2 | ss | No | 0.0067058 | 149.1249275 |
1 | I21 | 5 | 3.161 | 3.161 | 3.728 | 1 | ss | No | 0.0067058 | 149.1249275 |
2 | I16 | 1 | 3.779 | 3.779 | 4.351 | 1 | ss | No | 4.8989795 | 0.2041241 |
2 | I8 | 2 | 1.454 | 1.454 | 3.190 | 1 | ss | No | 4.8989795 | 0.2041241 |
2 | I4 | 3 | 1.179 | 1.179 | 3.144 | 1 | ll | No | 4.8989795 | 0.2041241 |
2 | I6 | 4 | 0.873 | 0.873 | 3.256 | 1 | ss | No | 4.8989795 | 0.2041241 |
2 | I5 | 5 | 2.621 | 2.621 | 3.258 | 1 | ss | No | 4.8989795 | 0.2041241 |
3 | I16 | 1 | 1.115 | 1.115 | 3.272 | 1 | ss | Yes | NA | NA |
3 | I8 | 2 | 0.679 | 0.679 | 3.074 | 1 | ss | Yes | NA | NA |
3 | I4 | 3 | 0.606 | 0.606 | 3.044 | 1 | ss | Yes | NA | NA |
3 | I2 | 4 | 0.745 | 0.745 | 3.302 | 1 | ss | Yes | NA | NA |
3 | I1 | 5 | 0.924 | 0.924 | 4.181 | 1 | ss | Yes | NA | NA |
3 | AttendSS | 6 | 1.450 | 1.450 | 4.181 | 1 | ss | Yes | NA | NA |
4 | I16 | 1 | 1.011 | 1.011 | 3.190 | 1 | ll | Yes | NA | NA |
4 | I24 | 2 | 1.041 | 1.041 | 3.109 | 1 | ll | Yes | NA | NA |
4 | I28 | 3 | 0.806 | 0.806 | 3.113 | 1 | ll | Yes | NA | NA |
4 | I30 | 4 | 0.822 | 0.822 | 3.487 | 1 | ll | Yes | NA | NA |
4 | I31 | 5 | 0.914 | 0.914 | 3.170 | 1 | ll | Yes | NA | NA |
4 | AttendLL | 6 | 2.158 | 2.158 | 3.573 | 1 | ll | Yes | NA | NA |
Scoring Summary of the 5.5 Trial Delay Discounting Task
pd_out <- calc_pd(five.fivetrial_pd)
knitr::kable(pd_out, caption = "Scoring Summary of the 5.5 Trial Probability Discounting Task")
ResponseId | index | q | firstclick | lastclick | pagesubmit | totalclicks | response | attentionflag | hval | etheta50 | ep50 |
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1 | I16 | 1 | 3.980 | 3.980 | 5.184 | 1 | sc | No | 7.435436 | 0.1344911 | 88.14525 |
1 | I8 | 2 | 4.010 | 4.010 | 4.763 | 1 | lu | No | 7.435436 | 0.1344911 | 88.14525 |
1 | I12 | 3 | 2.061 | 2.061 | 3.252 | 1 | sc | No | 7.435436 | 0.1344911 | 88.14525 |
1 | I10 | 4 | 1.525 | 1.525 | 3.019 | 1 | sc | No | 7.435436 | 0.1344911 | 88.14525 |
1 | I9 | 5 | 2.253 | 2.954 | 3.738 | 2 | lu | No | 7.435436 | 0.1344911 | 88.14525 |
2 | I16 | 1 | 2.873 | 2.873 | 3.883 | 1 | sc | No | 99.000000 | 0.0101010 | 99.00000 |
2 | I8 | 2 | 3.745 | 3.745 | 4.864 | 1 | sc | No | 99.000000 | 0.0101010 | 99.00000 |
2 | I4 | 3 | 1.159 | 1.159 | 6.356 | 1 | sc | No | 99.000000 | 0.0101010 | 99.00000 |
2 | I2 | 4 | 3.064 | 3.064 | 5.408 | 1 | sc | No | 99.000000 | 0.0101010 | 99.00000 |
2 | I1 | 5 | 2.049 | 2.049 | 5.097 | 1 | sc | No | 99.000000 | 0.0101010 | 99.00000 |
2 | AttendSS | 6 | 2.295 | 2.295 | 4.641 | 1 | lu | No | 99.000000 | 0.0101010 | 99.00000 |
3 | I16 | 1 | 8.933 | 8.933 | 9.769 | 1 | sc | No | 1.601445 | 0.6244361 | 61.55983 |
3 | I8 | 2 | 2.163 | 2.163 | 2.981 | 1 | lu | No | 1.601445 | 0.6244361 | 61.55983 |
3 | I12 | 3 | 3.129 | 3.129 | 3.895 | 1 | lu | No | 1.601445 | 0.6244361 | 61.55983 |
3 | I14 | 4 | 2.655 | 2.655 | 4.855 | 1 | lu | No | 1.601445 | 0.6244361 | 61.55983 |
3 | I15 | 5 | 4.021 | 4.021 | 4.705 | 1 | sc | No | 1.601445 | 0.6244361 | 61.55983 |
4 | I16 | 1 | 4.415 | 4.415 | 5.382 | 1 | sc | No | 7.435436 | 0.1344911 | 88.14525 |
4 | I8 | 2 | 6.123 | 6.123 | 6.974 | 1 | lu | No | 7.435436 | 0.1344911 | 88.14525 |
4 | I12 | 3 | 1.673 | 1.673 | 3.191 | 1 | sc | No | 7.435436 | 0.1344911 | 88.14525 |
4 | I10 | 4 | 1.757 | 1.757 | 3.259 | 1 | sc | No | 7.435436 | 0.1344911 | 88.14525 |
4 | I9 | 5 | 1.207 | 1.207 | 4.592 | 1 | lu | No | 7.435436 | 0.1344911 | 88.14525 |
Scoring Summary of the 5.5 Trial Probability Discounting Task
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