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Experiment design and modeling for long-term studies in ads

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Recently, we presented some basic insights from our effort to measure and predict long-term effects at KDD 2015 [1]. References [1] Henning Hohnhold, Deirdre O'Brien, Diane Tang, Focus on the Long-Term: It's better for Users and Business , Proceedings 21st Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2015. [2]

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Using Empirical Bayes to approximate posteriors for large "black box" estimators

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References [1] Omkar Muralidharan, Amir Najmi "Second Order Calibration: A Simple Way To Get Approximate Posteriors" , Technical Report, Google, 2015. [2] Brendan McMahan et al, "Ad Click Prediction: a View from the Trenches" , Proceedings of the 19th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2013. [3]

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