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Re:CausalImpact: Open-source package for estimating causal e... by nrox on Thursday September 11, 2014 @04:13PM (#8304871)
something like this is done comparing monthly sums from a previous year with the current, to qualify the impact a campaign had in numbers. doing the difference you get the tendency for this year, and check if the actual result diverges from the tendency after the event.
Re:CausalImpact: Open-source package for estimating causal e... by nrox on Thursday September 11, 2014 @04:25PM (#8304951)
this tool makes it easier to do this analysis, because we dont have to choose the interval to compare and it is more obvious.