The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

JULY 22, 2020

One reason to do ramp-up is to mitigate the risk of never before seen arms. 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. For example, imagine a fantasy football site is considering displaying advanced player statistics.

Experimentation 95

Experimentation Statistics Testing Strategy 95

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Posteriors are useful to understand the system, measure accuracy, and make better decisions. Methods like the Poisson bootstrap can help us measure the variability of $t$, but don’t give us posteriors either, particularly since good high-dimensional estimators aren’t unbiased.

KDD 40

KDD Testing Machine Learning Modeling 40

Domino Data Lab

AUGUST 1, 2021

This dataset classifies customers based on a set of attributes into two credit risk groups – good or bad. This is to be expected, as there is no reason for a perfect 50:50 separation of the good vs. bad credit risk. but it generally relies on measuring the entropy in the change of predictions given a perturbation of a feature.

Modeling 139

Modeling Deep Learning Machine Learning Knowledge Discovery 139