Correlation
What r measures, what it does not, and when it lies.
- 1 lesson
- 14 min
- 2 simulations
Designing, running and reading product experiments — including the mistakes that make the results meaningless.
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Every lesson in Data Analytics: Statistics & Data VisualizationHypotheses, primary metrics, guardrail metrics and the unit of randomisation — the decisions to make before a single visitor enters the experiment.
The minimum detectable effect decides how many visitors you need, and the calendar decides how long — always in full weeks.
A proportion test, a confidence interval for the difference, continuous guardrail metrics, and how to report the result to the people who have to decide.
Peeking, sample ratio mismatch, novelty effects and too many metrics — four habits that feel reasonable and make a tidy experiment give the wrong answer.
What r measures, what it does not, and when it lies.
How to invert a probability, and why a 99%-accurate test can be wrong nine times in ten.
Why sample means behave so predictably, what a p-value really means, and how much data you need.
Reading coefficients, controlling for confounders, and checking whether a regression can be trusted.