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Towards optimal experimentation in online systems

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Modeling live experiment data Data scientists at YouTube are rarely involved in the analysis of typical live traffic experiments. Multiparameter experiments, however, generate richer data than standard A/B tests, and automated t-tests alone are insufficient to analyze them well. Testing Statistical Hypotheses.

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Misleading Statistics Examples – Discover The Potential For Misuse of Statistics & Data In The Digital Age

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To make sure the reliability is high, there are various techniques to perform – the first of them being the control tests, which should have similar results when reproducing an experiment in similar conditions. 3) Data fishing. This misleading data example is also referred to as “data dredging” (and related to flawed correlations).