Randomized Experimental Design via Geographic Clustering
Randomized Experimental Design via Geographic Clustering
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通过地理聚类的随机实验设计
DOI:
10.1145/3292500.3330778
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发表时间:
2019
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通讯作者:
Najmi, Amir
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作者:
Rolnick, David;Aydin, Kevin;Pouget-Abadie, Jean;Kamali, Shahab;Mirrokni, Vahab;Najmi, Amir
Web-based services often run randomized experiments to improve their products. A popular way to run these experiments is to use geographical regions as units of experimentation, since this does not require tracking of individual users or browser cookies. Since users may issue queries from multiple geographical locations, geo-regions cannot be considered independent and interference may be present in the experiment. In this paper, we study this problem, and first present GeoCUTS, a novel algorithm that forms geographical clusters to minimize interference while preserving balance in cluster size. We use a random sample of anonymized traffic from Google Search to form a graph representing user movements, then construct a geographically coherent clustering of the graph. Our main technical contribution is a statistical framework to measure the effectiveness of clusterings. Furthermore, we perform empirical evaluations showing that the performance of GeoCUTS is comparable to hand-crafted geo-regions with respect to both novel and existing metrics.
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