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No, if you read their technical paper, it's frequentist sequential testing with false discovery rate control, which is a fairly recent development (I mean, 25 y
by jmalicki 12y ago
No, if you read their technical paper, it's frequentist sequential testing with false discovery rate control, which is a fairly recent development (I mean, 25 years old is pretty new in statistics).
http://pages.optimizely.com/rs/optimizely/images/stats_engine_technical_paper.pdf http://pages.optimizely.com/rs/optimizely/images/stats_engin...
- dlss 12y agoI think all OP is trying to point out is that it either agrees with bayesian methods or it's wrong... so at best it's not materially new, and at worst it's using questionable assumptions.
- GFK_of_xmaspast 12y ago"it either agrees with bayesian methods or it's wrong" This kind of faith-based statistics is pure ideology.