Robert is a staff software engineer on the experimentation and analytics platform who is passionate about solving large scale engineering and statistics problems.

Frequentist Stopping Rules

Robert Neal

Stopping rules are what make most frequentist (a.k.a. classical) statistical tests valid. Unsurprisingly, they tell you when to stop an experiment, and equally unsurprising, they are rules that must be followed in order to get statistically valid experiments from statistical tests that depend on them. However, despite stopping rules being critical to the interpretation of […]

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