Articles on agile ab testing

Sequential Testing is About Improving Business Returns

Sequential Testing Efficiency

A central feature of sequential testing is the idea of stopping “early”, as in “earlier compared to an equivalent fixed-sample size test”. This allows running A/B tests with fewer users and in a shorter amount of time while adhering to the targeted error guarantees. For example, a test may be planned with a maximum duration […] Read more…

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The new standard for planning and analyzing A/B tests is here

A/B testing statistics done right

The first major overhaul of Analytics Toolkit since its release in early 2014 has finally arrived and it brings with it solutions to many of the hard questions facing practitioners when planning and analyzing A/B tests. Conducting statistically rigorous tests while achieving the best return on investment go hand in hand in the new Toolkit. […] Read more…

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Updates to Our A/B Testing Statistical Calculators

Meta Analysis Statistical Calculator

This short post presents several changes, updates, and new tool functionalities released in the past couple of months – some very recent, some less so. The updates concern all statistical calculators for design and analysis of A/B tests at Analytics-Toolkit.com and consist of the following: New tool: Statistical Calculator for Meta Analysis Quality of life […] Read more…

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AGILE A/B Testing Update: Custom API & Support for Non-Binomial Data

AGILE A/B Testing Tool Updates

I’m happy to announce the release of two long-awaited features for our A/B Testing Calculator: Support for non-binomial metrics like average revenue per user A new custom API for sending experiment data to the calculator Below is an explanation of each of these new features in some detail. Support for Non-Binomial Data While our more […] Read more…

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Affordable A/B Tests: Google Optimize & AGILE A/B Testing

The problem most-often faced by owners of websites who want to take a scientific approach to improving them by using A/B testing is that they might have relatively small revenue. Thus, when the ROI calculation for the A/B test is done it might turn out that it is economically unfeasible to test. In some cases, […] Read more…

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20-80% Faster A/B Tests? Is it real?

Percent Runs and Stopping Stage 1Delta

I got a question today about our AGILE A/B testing calculator and the statistics behind it and realized that I’m yet to write a dedicated post explaining the efficiency gains from using the method in more detail. This despite the fact that these speed gains are clearly communicated and verified through simulation results presented in our AGILE […] Read more…

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Futility Stopping Rules in AGILE A/B Testing

Stopping for Lack of Effect (Futility)

In this article we continue our examination of the AGILE statistical approach to AB testing with a more in-depth look into futility stopping, or stopping early for lack of positive effect (lack of superiority). We’ll cover why such rules are helpful and how they help boost the ROI of A/B testing, why a rigorous statistical rule […] Read more…

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Efficient AB Testing with the AGILE Statistical Method

AGILE AB Testing

Don’t we all want to run tests as quickly as possible, reaching results as conclusive and as certain as possible? Don’t we all want to minimize the number of users we send to an inferior variant and to implement a variant with positive lift as quickly as possible? Don’t we all want to get rid of […] Read more…

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Improving ROI in A/B Testing: the AGILE AB Testing Approach

After many months of statistical research and development we are happy to announce two major releases that we believe have the potential to reshape statistical practice in the area of A/B testing by substantially increasing the accuracy, efficiency and ultimately return on investment of all kinds of A/B testing efforts in online marketing: a free white […] Read more…

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The Importance of Statistical Power in Online A/B Testing

Statistical Power and Test Sensitivity

What is Statistical Power? In null-hypothesis statistical testing (NHST) – the procedure most commonly applied in A/B tests, there are two types of errors that practitioners should care about, type I and type II errors. Type I is the probability of the test procedure to falsely reject a true null hypothesis. Type II error is […] Read more…

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