% Author: Simon-Pierre Boucher — contact@spboucher.ai % \begin{table}[!htbp] \centering \caption{Summary of robustness analyses.} \label{tab:robustness_summary} \small \begin{adjustbox}{max width=\textwidth} \begin{tabular}{llp{7.5cm}} \toprule \textbf{Test} & \textbf{Main Result Stable?} & \textbf{Notes} \\ \midrule HC3 robust standard errors & Yes & Baseline inference method \\ Breusch-Pagan test & Yes & Heteroskedasticity confirmed (LM $= 768.0$); HC3 justified \\ Variance inflation factors & Yes (block level) & Substantial collinearity (mean VIF 17.2; 16/20 $>$ 10); joint inference unaffected, individual coefficients less precise \\ Bootstrap inference (1{,}000 rep.) & Yes & SE within 9\% of HC3 (15/20 within 5\%); CIs match \\ Trimmed prices (1st/99th pctile) & Yes & No sign reversals; all 16 significant dimensions remain significant \\ Quantile regression ($\tau = .25, .50, .75$) & Yes & Luxury premium increasing in price; discounts attenuate at upper quantiles \\ Lasso / elastic net selection & Yes (block level) & Sparse selection of 4 block representatives; semantic signal survives penalization \\ PCA comparison & Yes & PCA fits better ($\Delta R^2$ +0.070 vs.\ +0.044) but is uninterpretable; reference approach preferred for inference \\ \bottomrule \end{tabular} \end{adjustbox} \end{table}