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Great. How do I use this in my life to make things better?

• glial 8mo ago
  The SPRT is probably already making your life better: it's used to decrease the cost of medical trails, optimize classifications in high-stakes examinations (i.e. for medical certifications), detect defective manufacturing processes, etc. It sounds like this paper extends the method to groups of hypotheses, whereas the basic version is limited to a null hypothesis and an alternative hypothesis.
• data-ottawa 8mo ago
  This helps with determining when have you observed enough data to make a decision. A/B tests, monitoring metrics, health, quality control all use this. If you use LLMs, you might use this to determine if a model update or prompt change impacts results using fewer tokens.
• wdkrnls 8mo ago
  Implement a statistical software suite that ubiquitously uses this framework instead of the usual hierarchical mixed modeling tools whose assumptions often don't match what experiments were actually done.
• srean 8mo ago
  You can search for the "peeking" problem in A/B testing. SPRT also very likely helped win a major war that involved many nations.