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by blauwbilgorgel 4404 days ago
A/A testing (Null testing) or A/A/B testing gives a different effect than A/B testing.

Microsoft Research suggested (http://ai.stanford.edu/~ronnyk/2009controlledExperimentsOnTh...) that you continuously run A/A tests alongside your experiments. An A/A test can:

- Collect data and assess its variability for power calculations

- test the experimentation system (the Null hypothesis should be rejected about 5% of the time when a 95% confidence level is used)

- tell if users are split according to the planned percentages