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Peeking & Sequential Testing: Why Early Stops Lie

Lesson 8 of 818 minLab

This lesson is part of the course

In this lesson

You replay 20 A/A tests that were checked four times each, measure how peeking inflates the false positive rate and fix it with a Pocock boundary.

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  4. Analysing a Conversion Test: z-Test, p-Value & Confidence IntervalLab18 min Locked
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  6. Many Variants: The Multiple-Comparison Problem & BonferroniLab18 min Locked
  7. Sample Ratio Mismatch: Chi-Square Check of the Traffic SplitLab15 min Locked
  8. Peeking & Sequential Testing: Why Early Stops LieLab18 min Locked