Glossary · Data quality

Data quality

Checks that determine whether an experiment result can be trusted before it informs a decision.

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A/A Test for QA

A controlled check of assignment, exposure logging, metrics, and platform reliability.

Aggregation

How rollups and analysis units can change a metric or obscure meaningful variation.

Bot Traffic

How automated activity distorts metrics and consistent ways to detect or exclude it.

Concurrent Experiments

Definition, diagnostics, and safeguards for trustworthy data.

Data Drift

Definition, diagnostics, and safeguards for trustworthy data.

Data Leakage

Definition, diagnostics, and safeguards for trustworthy data.

Data Quality

Definition, diagnostics, and safeguards for trustworthy data.

Data Validation

Definition, diagnostics, and safeguards for trustworthy data.

Deduplication

Definition, diagnostics, and safeguards for trustworthy data.

Denominator

Definition, diagnostics, and safeguards for trustworthy data.

Eligibility

Definition, diagnostics, and safeguards for trustworthy data.

Event

Definition, diagnostics, and safeguards for trustworthy data.

Event Property

Definition, diagnostics, and safeguards for trustworthy data.

Event Tracking

Event schemas, identity, properties, missingness, and governance.

Experiment Overlap

Definition, diagnostics, and safeguards for trustworthy data.

Experiment QA

Definition, diagnostics, and safeguards for trustworthy data.

Exposure Bias

Definition, diagnostics, and safeguards for trustworthy data.

Exposure Logging

Definition, diagnostics, and safeguards for trustworthy data.

Identity Resolution

Definition, diagnostics, and safeguards for trustworthy data.

Instrumentation

Assignment, exposure, events, denominators, and data QA.

Instrumentation Bias

Definition, diagnostics, and safeguards for trustworthy data.

Metric Definition

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Metric Governance

Definition, diagnostics, and safeguards for trustworthy data.

Missing Data

Definition, diagnostics, and safeguards for trustworthy data.

Novelty Decay

Definition, diagnostics, and safeguards for trustworthy data.

Numerator

Definition, diagnostics, and safeguards for trustworthy data.

Outlier

Definition, diagnostics, and safeguards for trustworthy data.

Outlier Treatment

Definition, diagnostics, and safeguards for trustworthy data.

Post-Treatment Bias

Definition, diagnostics, and safeguards for trustworthy data.

Randomization Failure

Definition, diagnostics, and safeguards for trustworthy data.

Sample Allocation

Definition, diagnostics, and safeguards for trustworthy data.

Sample Ratio Mismatch

Expected versus observed allocation, chi-square checks, and root causes.

Seasonality

Definition, diagnostics, and safeguards for trustworthy data.

SRM Test

Definition, diagnostics, and safeguards for trustworthy data.

Targeting

Definition, diagnostics, and safeguards for trustworthy data.

Test Pollution

Definition, diagnostics, and safeguards for trustworthy data.

Tracking Plan

Definition, diagnostics, and safeguards for trustworthy data.

Traffic Allocation

Definition, diagnostics, and safeguards for trustworthy data.

Traffic Split

Definition, diagnostics, and safeguards for trustworthy data.

Treatment Assignment

Definition, diagnostics, and safeguards for trustworthy data.

Trigger Condition

Definition, diagnostics, and safeguards for trustworthy data.

Unit of Analysis

Definition, diagnostics, and safeguards for trustworthy data.

User Identity

Definition, diagnostics, and safeguards for trustworthy data.