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kevinconroy on June 3, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Multi-armed Bandit algorithms are superior to ...

Most websites lack sufficient traffic to reach statistical significance in a short time frame. Sure, Google and Facebook can run a test and get real results in a day (or even hour(s)), but the rest of us need weeks or months to do things properly

astrec on June 3, 2012 [–]

That really depends on the level of significance and the size of the effect you wish to detect.

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