Preference estimation from choice data: https://prestsoftware.com

Reach us at contact AT prestsoftware DOT com.

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 (we use 3.6 and 3.7) + pip

Optionally, work in a virtual environment:

$ python3 -m venv prest.env
$ source prest.env/bin/activate

Install the dependencies, compile everything and run:

$ pip install --user -r gui/requirements.txt
$ make run

$ make test      # quick test during development
$ make fulltest  # includes long-running tests

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.

Prest does not collect any data entered by its users.

The latest version of Prest will always be available online for free.