Articles on return on investment

The Business Value of A/B Testing

Value of AB Testing

Several charges are commonly thrown at A/B testing while considering it or even after it has become standard practice in a company. They may come from product teams, designers, developers, or management, and can be summed up like this: A good way to address these and to make the business case for experimentation is to […] Read more…

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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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What Can You Learn From Running an A/B Test for 2 Years?

AB Test Case Study

We just concluded an A/B test on Analytics-Toolkit.com that has been left to run for just over 2 years. And it failed, as in failing to demonstrate a statistically significant effect based on the significance threshold it was designed for. Has it been a waste of time, though, or can we actually learn something from […] Read more…

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