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Is there a name for this mis-application of marginal distributions?

Denote (in proportions), $F$ for female and $nF$ for "non-female", $B$ for "blonde" and $nB$ for "non-blonde". The information 50% of the population is female 50% of the population is blonde perm …
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Can I use a "reach" variable as independent in a multiple linear regression?

Adding up the values a variable takes over the different time periods has meaning only if this cumulative sum can have a meaningful interpretation. For example, it would be reasonable to try to explai …
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Observational study with many data Vs. Experimental study with fewer data: Which has more va...

So if we performed a marketing act on "customers yesterday", then our control group is "customers today" -on whom we did not perform a marketing act. … As for confounding variables, you can disaggregate your (large) data sample, and see whether the responses to marketing activities per sub-sample are roughly the same or not (the reasoning is obvious). …
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Understanding selection bias and endogeneity in marketing

Let $y_a$ be the sales to "intersted users" that have been exposed to paid search ads, let $y_o$ be all other sales, so total sales is $y = y_a + y_o$. If you regress total sales on a collection of re …
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