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Data Analyst · Senior · Theory

Your key metric is average order value, and it has a very heavy right tail: a few percent of customers bring in half the revenue. How would you build a confidence interval for the difference in means between two groups?

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They're checking whether you understand that with a heavy tail the standard tools (the t-interval, the bootstrap) become unreliable. They also look at whether you see that every "stabilizing" trick changes the quantity being estimated, and whether you can validate a method empirically.

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