Currently doing a job application test for a FAANG company that asks me to conduct an A/B tests and cruelly says:
There are several equally acceptable stats approaches, so we’re interested to see your approach.
Which is, like -- well, I was going to just do a T-Test, but now I'm terrified to try something that simple.
Any thoughts on what methods a FAANG company would expect on an A/B test like this?
Sounds like an employment question. Does "FAANG", what ever that may be, actually have any impact on this question?
I had a job interview where they gave me a data set and instructions "do the most complicated test/analysis you can", though of course the software they wanted was something I had never used at all.
I basically answered " an analysis or test without a question is a pretty poor use of time". I did get the job.
@ballardw wrote:
Does "FAANG", what ever that may be, ...
In finance, “FAANG” is an acronym that refers to the stocks of five prominent American technology companies: Meta (META) (formerly known as Facebook), Amazon (AMZN), Apple (AAPL), Netflix (NFLX); and Alphabet (GOOG) (formerly known as Google).
Koen
Paper 1070-2017
Cold-Start Solution to A/B Testing Using Adaptive Sample Size Modification
Bo Zhang, IBM; Liwei Wang, Pharmaceutical Product Development Inc.
https://support.sas.com/resources/papers/proceedings17/1070-2017.pdf
Google : "A/B testing" site:lexjansen.com
A/B Testing is very much present in SAS® Customer Intelligence 360. But you probably don't have access to that product.
Using the A/B Test Node for Control Groups
https://video.sas.com/detail/video/4844229730001/using-the-a-b-test-node-for-control-groups
Koen
I think it is like a Crossover Experiment Design, like the following graph:
And Check example of PROC TTEST for it.
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