Experiment design and modeling for long-term studies in ads
The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog
OCTOBER 7, 2015
This is essentially the same as finding a truly useful objective to optimize. A small but persistent team of data scientists within Google’s Search Ads has been pursuing item #2 since about 2008, leading to a much improved understanding of the long-term user effects we miss when running typical short A/B tests.
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