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Experiment design and modeling for long-term studies in ads

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

by HENNING HOHNHOLD, DEIRDRE O'BRIEN, and DIANE TANG In this post we discuss the challenges in measuring and modeling the long-term effect of ads on user behavior. We describe experiment designs which have proven effective for us and discuss the subtleties of trying to generalize the results via modeling.

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

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

Posteriors are useful to understand the system, measure accuracy, and make better decisions. But most common machine learning methods don’t give posteriors, and many don’t have explicit probability models. In our model, $theta$ doesn’t depend directly on $x$ — all the information in $x$ is captured in $t$.

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