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New Thinking, Old Thinking and a Fairytale

Peter James Thomas

Of course it can be argued that you can use statistics (and Google Trends in particular) to prove anything [1] , but I found the above figures striking. King was a wise King, but now he was gripped with uncertainty. – CIO.com 2010. “61% For example in 20 Risks that Beset Data Programmes. . [7].

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Changing assignment weights with time-based confounders

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

One reason to do ramp-up is to mitigate the risk of never before seen arms. For example, imagine a fantasy football site is considering displaying advanced player statistics. A ramp-up strategy may mitigate the risk of upsetting the site’s loyal users who perhaps have strong preferences for the current statistics that are shown.

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Estimating the prevalence of rare events — theory and practice

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

But importance sampling in statistics is a variance reduction technique to improve the inference of the rate of rare events, and it seems natural to apply it to our prevalence estimation problem. High Risk 10% 5% 33.3% Statistical Science. Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research, 2010. [4] How Many Strata?

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