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Compliance bias in mobile experiments

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

But what if users don't immediately uptake the new experimental version? Background At Google, experimentation is an invaluable tool for making decisions and inference about new products and features. by DANIEL PERCIVAL Randomized experiments are invaluable in making product decisions, including on mobile apps.

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Unintentional data

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

1]" Statistics, as a discipline, was largely developed in a small data world. Yet when we use these tools to explore data and look for anomalies or interesting features, we are implicitly formulating and testing hypotheses after we have observed the outcomes. We must correct for multiple hypothesis tests.