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Multi-Armed Bandit: When to Do Bandit Tests Instead of A/B Tests

ConversionXL

First, let’s dive into bandit testing and talk a bit about the history of the N-armed bandit problem. What is bandit testing? The practical differences between A/B testing and bandit testing Explore-exploit Benefits of bandit testing A few flavors of bandit methodology Epsilon-greedy method What about other algorithms?

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How to Estimate a “Net Value” for Your A/B Testing Program

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In my experience, I find that teams and organizations report many winning A/B tests with high uplifts, but somehow they don’t seem to bring those uplifts in reality. Five types of A/B test “wins” can exaggerate discovered uplifts. These five types of winners show up in every experimentation program.

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When to Run Bandit Tests Instead of A/B/n Tests

ConversionXL

As Andrew Anderson said in an Adobe article : Andrew Anderson: “In an ideal world, you would already know all possible values, be able to intrinsically call the value of each action, and then apply all your resources towards that one action that causes you the greatest return (a greedy action). 12:01 visitor B sees Variation 2.

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How to Get More Followers on Instagram (Without Buying Them)

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90% of Instagram users follow at least one business account and 83% of people discover new products through their Instagram feed. Amassing a large following on Instagram can help you at every stage of the marketing funnel—from bolstering brand awareness to driving conversions. 7 principles to effectively grow your Instagram following.

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2 Data-Driven Frameworks We Use to Optimize Sales Engagement

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One could start a level up at ‘Meet/exceed targets for meetings held’ or two levels up at ‘Meet/exceed targets for sales qualified opportunities’ or higher still. Were I focused on the inputs, I would have fleshed out the issue tree to include facets of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation.

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How to Build a High Performing Growth Team

ConversionXL

A growth team is made up of many different skillsets and can more easily push through ideas and experimentation that crosses traditional silos and boundaries. The rapid generation and testing of ideas followed by rigorous data analysis to take action on the results. Well, it depends on the company and how things are set up.

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Key Insights from Every Speaker of Elite Camp 2017

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Elite Camp 2017 had an enviable line-up of heavy hitters and rock stars. A/B testing is a great way to see that sometimes the changes you think will work don’t work at all. So we want to come up with a bunch of radically different ideas & test them. Sales/support follow up with useful content.

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