> I'm not quite sure what you mean by multivariate analysis I mean as in the tests done May 16, September 20, and October 9 reported at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2012/We_Need_A_Breakthrough without adjusting the best performing pull-down delivery combined banner/landing page from the beginning of this month (although I don't think we will need the one that follows vertical scrolling. It may produce 30% but that will be nothing if the remaining ~300 appeal messages are tested, unless they don't fit the lognormal distribution that they appear to.)
> That would be complex, and could be a disaster... What are the possible failure modes? On Dec 28, 2012 9:46 PM, "James Salsman" <jsalsman at gmail.com> wrote: > > How about for the April fundraiser, instead of setting a dollar value > goal, we agree to use multivariate analysis instead of A/B testing to > optimize the messaging from volunteer submissions in advance, then run > the whole thing for a fixed time frame, say three weeks, and then use > the actual amount raised to decide whether salaries should be > competitive with area tech firms, whether Fellowships should be > jettisoned, how much personnel to put into the Education Program and > engineering, and how much of a reserve to invest, preferably with low > risk instruments which pay above the rate of inflation? _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
