US Patent:
20160103758, Apr 14, 2016
Inventors:
- Sunnyvale CA, US
Flavio T.P. Oliveira - San Francisco CA, US
Maria Stone - Pacifica CA, US
Miao Chen - Sunnyvale CA, US
Shalu Pandey - Santa Clara CA, US
Kshitiz Tripathi - North San Jose CA, US
Assignee:
Yahoo! Inc. - Sunnyvale CA
International Classification:
G06F 11/36
G06F 9/445
Abstract:
The technologies described herein use a statistical test to determine whether differences between data sets of buckets in a bucket test, such as differences between averages of two buckets (e.g., differences between means of two buckets), are directionally larger than a predetermined or preset minimum threshold value. The statistical test may also provide an extension to specify the minimum threshold value as a percentage. Also, described herein are techniques for estimating different control variables of a bucket test, such as estimating minimum bucket size to provide sufficient statistical power with use of the minimum threshold value.
