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Add short description of concave Scorekeeper
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mrose17 authored Aug 20, 2016
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Expand Up @@ -173,6 +173,18 @@ there are two scorekeepers:

* `visits` - the total number of visits

> #### The Concave Scorekeeper
> The concave scorekeeper rewards the publisher of a page according to:
>
> 1. a fixed bonus for the page hit
> 2. how much time the user spends on the page
>
> The reward increases as the user spends more time on the page, but the model uses a
> concave quadratic (utility) function to provide diminishing returns as the time spent
> on the page increases. If we set the `durationWeight` parameter to zero, the model
> only takes into account the page hit and ignores the time spent on the page when
> calculating the reward.
Scorekeepers may be "tuned" using options,
at present,
only the `concave` scorekeeper makes use of these.
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