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Experiment design and modeling for long-term studies in ads

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This is essentially the same as finding a truly useful objective to optimize. We use this knowledge to define objective functions to optimize our ads system with a view towards the long-term. Henne, Dan Sommerfield, Overall Evaluation Criterion , Proceedings 13th Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2007.

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Changing assignment weights with time-based confounders

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Proceedings of the 13th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining. An efficient bandit algorithm for realtime multivariate optimization." Proceedings of the 23rd ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. 2] Scott, Steven L. 2015): 37-45. [3]