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@kaytilann kaytilann commented Apr 12, 2026

Documentation that explains how conjoint analysis can be used to estimate demand for new-to-world products

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Documentation that explains how conjoint analysis can be used to estimate demand for new-to-world products
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This is very useful context and point to a "market" of users the current documentation is not serving well. The notes sound like they come from battle tested experience @kaytilann ! Would you be at all interested in turning these notes into a demonstration notebook for conjoint modelling in the product context?


## Who This Guide Is For

This guide is written for product managers and decision scientists who:
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This is a super useful perspective of discrete choice that is missing from the documentation. Thanks for pushing this.


It works poorly for:

- Features that are entirely new to the market and have no existing analog
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A good problem to flag.


A more rigorous approach involves treating the two conjoint datasets as inputs to a nested
model structure -- conceptually similar to a nested logit -- where one model estimates the
probability of choosing within a subset of products, and a second model estimates choice
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You might be interested in this PR on consideration sets. It could be used if the attributes that drove consideration were available for new market entrants and were distinct from the utility predictors.

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