Variance and significance in large-scale online services
The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog
JANUARY 14, 2016
by AMIR NAJMI Running live experiments on large-scale online services (LSOS) is an important aspect of data science. Unlike experimentation in some other areas, LSOS experiments present a surprising challenge to statisticians — even though we operate in the realm of “big data”, the statistical uncertainty in our experiments can be substantial. Because individual observations have so little information, statistical significance remains important to assess.
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