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Experiment design and modeling for long-term studies in ads

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

A/B testing is used widely in information technology companies to guide product development and improvements. For questions as disparate as website design and UI, prediction algorithms, or user flows within apps, live traffic tests help developers understand what works well for users and the business, and what doesn’t.

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Changing assignment weights with time-based confounders

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

Another reason to use ramp-up is to test if a website's infrastructure can handle deploying a new arm to all of its users. The website wants to make sure they have the infrastructure to handle the feature while testing if engagement increases enough to justify the infrastructure. We offer two examples where this may be the case.

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Towards optimal experimentation in online systems

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

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. Springer New York, 2007. [8]

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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. In 2007, Colgate was ordered by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) of the U.K. 3) Data fishing.