Data-driven metric development for online controlled experiments: Seven lessons learned

A Deng, X Shi - Proceedings of the 22nd ACM SIGKDD International …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Online controlled experiments, also called A/B testing, have been established as the mantra
for data-driven decision making in many web-facing companies. In recent years, there are …

Practical aspects of sensitivity in online experimentation with user engagement metrics

A Drutsa, A Ufliand, G Gusev - Proceedings of the 24th ACM International …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Online controlled experiments, eg, A/B testing, is the state-of-the-art approach used by
modern Internet companies to improve their services based on data-driven decisions. The …

A dirty dozen: twelve common metric interpretation pitfalls in online controlled experiments

P Dmitriev, S Gupta, DW Kim, G Vaz - Proceedings of the 23rd ACM …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Online controlled experiments (eg, A/B tests) are now regularly used to guide product
development and accelerate innovation in software. Product ideas are evaluated as …

Improving the sensitivity of online controlled experiments by utilizing pre-experiment data

A Deng, Y Xu, R Kohavi, T Walker - … conference on Web search and data …, 2013 - dl.acm.org
Online controlled experiments are at the heart of making data-driven decisions at a diverse
set of companies, including Amazon, eBay, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Zynga …

An activity and metric model for online controlled experiments

D Issa Mattos, P Dmitriev, A Fabijan, J Bosch… - … Germany, November 28 …, 2018 - Springer
Accurate prioritization of efforts in product and services development is critical to the success
of every company. Online controlled experiments, also known as A/B tests, enable software …

Learning Metrics that Maximise Power for Accelerated A/B-Tests

O Jeunen, A Ustimenko - Proceedings of the 30th ACM SIGKDD …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Online controlled experiments are a crucial tool to allow for confident decision-making in
technology companies. A North Star metric is defined (such as long-term revenue or user …

SQR: Balancing speed, quality and risk in online experiments

Y Xu, W Duan, S Huang - Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGKDD …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Controlled experimentation, also called A/B testing, is widely adopted to accelerate product
innovations in the online world. However, how fast we innovate can be limited by how we …

Statistical inference in two-stage online controlled experiments with treatment selection and validation

A Deng, T Li, Y Guo - Proceedings of the 23rd international conference …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
Online controlled experiments, also called A/B testing, have been established as the mantra
for data-driven decision making in many web-facing companies. A/B Testing support …

A/B testing intuition busters: Common misunderstandings in online controlled experiments

R Kohavi, A Deng, L Vermeer - Proceedings of the 28th ACM SIGKDD …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
A/B tests, or online controlled experiments, are heavily used in industry to evaluate
implementations of ideas. While the statistics behind controlled experiments are well …

Diluted treatment effect estimation for trigger analysis in online controlled experiments

A Deng, V Hu - Proceedings of the Eighth ACM International …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Online controlled experiments, also called A/B testing, is playing a central role in many data-
driven web-facing companies. It is well known and intuitively obvious to many practitioners …