Description: Trustworthy Online Controlled Experiments A Practical Guide to A/B Testing This practical guide for students, researchers and practitioners offers real world guidance for data-driven decision making and innovation. Ron Kohavi (Author), Diane Tang (Author), Ya Xu (Author) 9781108724265, Cambridge University Press Paperback, published 2 April 2020 288 pages 22.6 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm, 0.4 kg 'Experimentation is the future of digital strategy and 'Trustworthy Experiments' will be its Bible. Kohavi, Tang and Xu are three of the most noteworthy experts on experimentation working today and their book delivers a truly practical roadmap for digital experimentation that is useful right out of the box. The revealing case studies they conducted over many decades at Microsoft, Amazon, Google and LinkedIn are organized into easy to understand practical lessens with tremendous depth and clarity. It should be required reading for any manager of a digital business.' Sinan Aral, David Austin Professor of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and author of The Hype Machine Getting numbers is easy; getting numbers you can trust is hard. This practical guide by experimentation leaders at Google, LinkedIn, and Microsoft will teach you how to accelerate innovation using trustworthy online controlled experiments, or A/B tests. Based on practical experiences at companies that each run more than 20,000 controlled experiments a year, the authors share examples, pitfalls, and advice for students and industry professionals getting started with experiments, plus deeper dives into advanced topics for practitioners who want to improve the way they make data-driven decisions. Learn how to • Use the scientific method to evaluate hypotheses using controlled experiments • Define key metrics and ideally an Overall Evaluation Criterion • Test for trustworthiness of the results and alert experimenters to violated assumptions • Build a scalable platform that lowers the marginal cost of experiments close to zero • Avoid pitfalls like carryover effects and Twyman's law • Understand how statistical issues play out in practice. Preface – how to read this book 1. Introduction and motivation 2. Running and analyzing experiments: an end-to-end example 3. Twyman's law and experimentation trustworthiness 4. Experimentation platform and culture Part II: 5. Speed matters: an end-to-end case study 6. Organizational metrics 7. Metrics for experimentation and the Overall Evaluation Criterion (OEC) 8. Institutional memory and aeta-analysis 9. Ethics in controlled experiments Part III: 10. Complementary techniques 11. Observational causal studies Part IV: 12. Client-side experiments 13. Instrumentation 14. Choosing a randomization unit 15. Ramping experiment exposure: trading off speed, quality, and risk 16. Scaling experiment analyses Part V: 17. The statistics behind online controlled experiments 18. Variance estimation and improved sensitivity: pitfalls and solutions 19. The A/A test 20. Triggering for improved sensitivity 21. Guardrail metrics 22. Leakage and interference between variants 23. Measuring long-term treatment effects. Subject Areas: Mathematical theory of computation [UYA], Data mining [UNF], Market research [KJSM], Knowledge management [KJMV3]
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BIC Subject Area 1: Mathematical theory of computation [UYA]
BIC Subject Area 2: Data mining [UNF]
BIC Subject Area 3: Market research [KJSM]
BIC Subject Area 4: Knowledge management [KJMV3]
Item Height: 226 mm
Item Width: 152 mm
Author: Diane Tang, Ya Xu, Ron Kohavi
Publication Name: Trustworthy Online Controlled Experiments: a Practical Guide to A/B Testing
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Subject: Computer Science, Management, Marketing
Publication Year: 2020
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 400 g
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
