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Re:Google Likes To Steal Others' Thunder by vaksel on Thursday April 30, 2009 @06:43PM (#587704)
Walmart does A/B tests too, they just make the changes to a single store to hit that same 1% of its visitors
Re:Google Likes To Steal Others' Thunder by warfangle on Thursday April 30, 2009 @11:38PM (#588049)
They'd have to make the changes to 10 stores to hit 1%. Just nitpicking, though :)
Re:Google Likes To Steal Others' Thunder by gojomo on Friday May 01, 2009 @03:23AM (#588212)
My understanding is that major walk-in retailers like Wal-Mart do multivariate testing to maximize the conclusions they can draw from simultaneous experiments. Apparently an approach called 'taguchi split testing' is especially valuable for evaluating combinations of changes, and is also applied in online situations that go beyond simple A/B testing.