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Experiment design and modeling for long-term studies in ads

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

This is essentially the same as finding a truly useful objective to optimize. accounting for effects "orthogonal" to the randomization used in experimentation. The first thing you’ll want to do is to run your test for a long time with fixed experimental units, in our case cookies.

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How Do Super Rookies Start Learning Data Analysis?

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Data analysis is a type of knowledge discovery that gains insights from data and drives business decisions. Professional data analysts must have a wealth of business knowledge in order to know from the data what has happened and what is about to happen. For super rookies, the first task is to understand what data analysis is.

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Changing assignment weights with time-based confounders

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

Instead, we focus on the case where an experimenter has decided to run a full traffic ramp-up experiment and wants to use the data from all of the epochs in the analysis. When there are changing assignment weights and time-based confounders, this complication must be considered either in the analysis or the experimental design.