Online platforms, marketplaces and retailers typically use ranking algorithms to determine the order in which hundreds … or thousands of choices are presented to consumers. While ranking algorithms may aid consumer choice, there are concerns … of ranking algorithms on consumer choice and the degree to which researchers may obtain biased estimates of preferences …

algorithm. Resulting price zone configurations are compared to both exogenously given, expert-based price zone configurations … from the Entso-E bidding zone study and endogenously assessed configurations from a hierarchical cluster algorithm. Results … show that the genetic algorithm achieves best results in terms of system costs. Moreover, the comparison with solutions …

in high dimensions. Here, an evolutionary algorithm that is applicable to different robust estimators is presented …. Further, variants of this evolutionary algorithm for selected estimatorsmost prominently least trimmed squares and least … computational statistics. -- Evolutionary algorithms ; robust regression ; least trimmed squares (LTS) ; least median of squares …