Package 'ELMSO'

Title: Implementation of the Efficient Large-Scale Online Display Advertising Algorithm
Description: An implementation of the algorithm described in "Efficient Large- Scale Internet Media Selection Optimization for Online Display Advertising" by Paulson, Luo, and James (Journal of Marketing Research 2018; see URL below for journal text/citation and <http://faculty.marshall.usc.edu/gareth-james/Research/ELMSO.pdf> for a full-text version of the paper). The algorithm here is designed to allocate budget across a set of online advertising opportunities using a coordinate-descent approach, but it can be used in any resource-allocation problem with a matrix of visitation (in the case of the paper, website page- views) and channels (in the paper, websites). The package contains allocation functions both in the presence of bidding, when allocation is dependent on channel-specific cost curves, and when advertising costs are fixed at each channel.
Authors: Courtney Paulson [aut, cre], Lan Luo [ctb], Gareth James [ctb]
Maintainer: Courtney Paulson <[email protected]>
License: GPL-3
Version: 1.0.1
Built: 2024-10-31 22:12:35 UTC
Source: https://github.com/cran/ELMSO

Help Index


Main ELMSO Function

Description

This function allows you to allocate budget to a set of websites based on the cost curve of the websites and a matrix of pageviews for those sites.

Usage

ELMSO(z, CPM = NULL, a = NULL, tau = NULL, step = 0.05,
  size = 100, tol = 10^-3, iters = 200)

Arguments

z

An n by p matrix of pageviews

CPM

A p-dimensional vector of the average CPM values at each website. This is used to calculate the cost curve from a shifted logistic function. You may instead enter values for a p-dimensional "a" vector to define your own shifted logistic cost curve.

a

A p-dimensional vector of values controlling the steepness of the shifted logistic cost curve. You may instead enter values for a p-dimensional vector of average CPM values to have the curve calculated for you.

tau

A p-dimensional vector of total pageviews (in thousands) for each website. Defaults to the total pageviews in the matrix for each website (i.e., assumes z matrix represents all website pageviews) divided by 1000.

step

A value to control the step size of the lambda grid (distance between budget points). Default is 0.05.

size

A value to control the number of lambda values tried (number of budget points). Default is 100.

tol

A value to control the convergence tolerance of the coordinate descent procedure. Default is 10^-3.

iters

A value to control the number of iterations until algorithm should exit if convergence tolerance is not reached. Default is 200.

Value

bid: A matrix of bid values by website at each budget

spend: a matrix of total spend by website at each budget

budget: a vector of budget values

lambda: a vector of lambda values

a: a vector of a values (used to calculate shifted logistic curves and reach in reach.ELMSO function)

References

Courtney Paulson, Lan Luo, and Gareth M. James (2018) Efficient Large-Scale Internet Media Selection Optimization for Online Display Advertising. Journal of Marketing Research: August 2018, Vol. 55, No. 4, pp. 489-506.

Examples

z=matrix(round(abs(rnorm(5000,0,0.7))),1000,5)
CPM.avg=c(3,4,5,6,7)
tau.values=rep(1000,5) #Note tau here is in thousands of pageviews

allocation=ELMSO(z=z,CPM=CPM.avg,tau=tau.values)
allocation$bid
allocation$spend
allocation$budget
allocation$lambda
allocation$a

Fixed ELMSO Function (fixed advertising costs, no cost curve)

Description

This function allows you to allocate budget to a set of websites when cost is fixed at each website based on a matrix of pageviews for those sites.

Usage

ELMSO.fixed(z, CPM, tau = NULL, step = 0.05, size = 100,
  tol = 10^-3, iters = 200)

Arguments

z

An n by p matrix of pageviews

CPM

A p-dimensional vector of the (fixed) CPM values at each website

tau

A p-dimensional vector of total pageviews (in thousands) for each website. Defaults to the total pageviews in the matrix for each website (i.e., assumes z matrix represents all website pageviews) divided by 1000.

step

A value to control the step size of the lambda grid (distance between budget points). Default is 0.05.

size

A value to control the number of lambda values tried (number of budget points). Default is 100.

tol

A value to control the convergence tolerance of the coordinate descent procedure. Default is 10^-3.

iters

A value to control the number of iterations until algorithm should exit if convergence tolerance is not reached. Default is 200.

Value

spend: a matrix of total spend by website at each budget

budget: a vector of budget values

lambda: a vector of lambda values

References

Courtney Paulson, Lan Luo, and Gareth M. James (2018) Efficient Large-Scale Internet Media Selection Optimization for Online Display Advertising. Journal of Marketing Research: August 2018, Vol. 55, No. 4, pp. 489-506.

Examples

z=matrix(round(abs(rnorm(5000,0,0.7))),1000,5)
CPM.fixed=c(3,4,5,6,7)
tau.values=rep(100,5) #Note tau here is in thousands of pageviews

allocation=ELMSO.fixed(z=z,CPM=CPM.fixed,tau=tau.values)
allocation$spend
allocation$budget
allocation$lambda

Calculating Reach from Main ELMSO Function

Description

This function allows you to calculate reach achieved at a given budget value from the ELMSO output.

Usage

reach.ELMSO(bid, a, z)

Arguments

bid

A p-dimensional vector of the bidded CPM at each website for a particular budget value

a

A p-dimensional vector of steepness values for the cost curves associated with each website

z

An n by p matrix of pageviews

Value

A value between 0 and 1 specifying the reach achieved with the given budget allocation.

References

Courtney Paulson, Lan Luo, and Gareth M. James (2018) Efficient Large-Scale Internet Media Selection Optimization for Online Display Advertising. Journal of Marketing Research: August 2018, Vol. 55, No. 4, pp. 489-506.

Examples

z=matrix(round(abs(rnorm(5000,0,0.7))),1000,5)
CPM.avg=c(3,4,5,6,7)
tau.values=rep(100,5) #Note tau here is in thousands of pageviews

allocation=ELMSO(z=z,CPM=CPM.avg,tau=tau.values)
reach.ELMSO(allocation$bid[,101],allocation$a,z)

Calculating Reach from Fixed ELMSO Function

Description

This function allows you to calculate reach achieved at a given budget value from the fixed ELMSO output.

Usage

reach.ELMSO.fixed(CPM, w, z, tau = NULL)

Arguments

CPM

A p-dimensional vector of the fixed CPM at each website for a particular budget value

w

A p-dimensional vector of amount spent at each website

z

An n by p matrix of pageviews

tau

A p-dimensional vector of total pageviews (in thousands) for each website. Defaults to the total pageviews in the matrix for each website (i.e., assumes z matrix represents all website pageviews) divided by 1000.

Value

A value between 0 and 1 specifying the reach achieved with the given budget allocation.

References

Courtney Paulson, Lan Luo, and Gareth M. James (2018) Efficient Large-Scale Internet Media Selection Optimization for Online Display Advertising. Journal of Marketing Research: August 2018, Vol. 55, No. 4, pp. 489-506.

Examples

z=matrix(round(abs(rnorm(5000,0,0.7))),1000,5)
CPM.fixed=c(3,4,5,6,7)
tau.values=rep(100,5) #Note tau here is in thousands of pageviews

allocation=ELMSO.fixed(z=z,CPM=CPM.fixed,tau=tau.values)
reach.ELMSO.fixed(CPM.fixed,allocation$spend[,101],z,tau.values)