Search Results for author: Doug Hains

Found 3 papers, 0 papers with code

Effect Size Estimation for Duration Recommendation in Online Experiments: Leveraging Hierarchical Models and Objective Utility Approaches

no code implementations20 Dec 2023 Yu Liu, Runzhe Wan, James McQueen, Doug Hains, Jinxiang Gu, Rui Song

The selection of the assumed effect size (AES) critically determines the duration of an experiment, and hence its accuracy and efficiency.

Decision Making

Experimentation Platforms Meet Reinforcement Learning: Bayesian Sequential Decision-Making for Continuous Monitoring

no code implementations2 Apr 2023 Runzhe Wan, Yu Liu, James McQueen, Doug Hains, Rui Song

With the growing needs of online A/B testing to support the innovation in industry, the opportunity cost of running an experiment becomes non-negligible.

Decision Making reinforcement-learning

A Bayesian Model for Online Activity Sample Sizes

no code implementations23 Nov 2021 Thomas Richardson, Yu Liu, James McQueen, Doug Hains

Given observations on the number of unique users participating in an initial period, we present a simple but novel Bayesian method for predicting the number of additional individuals who will participate during a subsequent period.

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