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Why CEOs should test big digital business ideas in tiny countries.

Mark Raskino

For example in 2003, when I visited Zagreb in Croatia for the first time – they had mobile phone text based payment for car parking. He was talking about something we call the ‘compound uncertainty’ that must be navigated when we want to test and introduce a real breakthrough digital business idea. This is not a new observation.

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Multiplicity: Succeed Awesomely At Web Analytics 2.0!

Occam's Razor

My first eMetrics summit was June 2003 and as a young inexperienced person new in the field it was a great learning experience (eMetrics in Santa Barbara were the best!). Experimentation & Testing : Google Website Optimizer, Offermatica, Optimost etc. ." Ok let me explain. Two New, Interesting & Non-Obvious Tools.

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The trinity of errors in applying confidence intervals: An exploration using Statsmodels

O'Reilly on Data

We use the diagnostic test results of our regression model to support the reasons why CIs should not be used in financial data analyses. As the number of experimental trials N approaches infinity, the probability of E equals M/N. Specifically, the Bera-Jarque and Omnibus normality tests show the probability that the residuals ??