The design of experiments involves a compromise between covariate balance and robustness. This article provides a formalization of this tradeoff and describes an …
One of the main practical challenges companies face when running experiments (or A/B tests) over a panel is interference, the setting where one experimental unit's treatment …
J Zhao, Z Zhou - Management Science, 2024 - pubsonline.informs.org
Practitioners and academics have long appreciated the benefits of covariate balancing when they conduct randomized experiments. For web-facing firms running online A/B tests …
Switchback experiments, where the experimental units are assigned to control and treatment interchangeably over time, have gained increasing popularity in recent years due to their …
J Zhao, Z Zhou - Available at SSRN, 2022 - academia.edu
Practitioners and academics have long appreciated the benefits that experimentation brings to firms. For online web-facing firms, however, it still remains challenging in handling …
Digital innovation has gained increasing attention in today's world. The explosion of data that is generated through modern marketplaces provides new opportunities to use data …
Randomized experiments are the gold standard for investigating the causal effect of treatment on a population. In this dissertation, we present algorithmic advances for three …