How to statistically measure the before and after effects of a change in a time series I have a time series which represents call attempts to a cellular network. The data was recorded over 7 days using hourly intervals. I plan to make a brief change (for only a few hours) to the network which will either increase or decrease the call attempt value during that period of change.
How can I measure with confidence whether my brief change had any impact using statistics? I've read about change point analysis here but knowing my data, the changes in my data could be completely random due to the time of the day or day of the week etc and it could highlight multiple change points that mean nothing.  
I'm afraid that my change will be masked by temporal events in the data and I will not be certain if my change had any impact. 
Below is a sample of what a single cell variable looks like over 7 days. If you have any suggestions please shout.
 
 A: You are quite right in your reflection about "temporal effects" . You can safely ignore any advice that doesn't explicitly treat these effects while attempting to identify and measure latent activity. Your data can be used to identify break points either in the expected value (intervention detection) or changes in variance . See http://docplayer.net/12080848-Outliers-level-shifts-and-variance-changes-in-time-series.html which covers these first 2 issues. Another issue is break-points in parameters over time which can be resolved/detected by using Chow's procedure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chow_test sequentially . All three of these considerations have been routinely implemented in AUTOBOX which I helped to develop.
This topic is sometimes referred to as the "interrupted experiment" in the social sciences  . Early work by Box and others focused on the case where the change point was known a priori. Developments in the late 70's by I. Chang and G. Tiao spoke to the issue of finding the change point(s).
If you wish to post your data I will try and help further.
