Bug with Experiment MDE

When I create an experiment with ARPU as the goal metric, it shows a very small MDE. However, this is almost certainly incorrect since ARPU is a very noisy metric. Additionally, my experiments that run for 2 weeks+ all show a much wider confidence interval for the ARPU result.


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Are you confusing ARPU with ARPPU?

  • ARPU = Average Revenue Per User where your entire user base is being used, from your screenshot 39M
  • ARPPU = Average Revenue per PAYING User

If you have a Payer Conversion Rate of 0.1%, then suddenly your user base for MDE goes down by 1000x - this would be like going from 39M to 39k over the lifetime of the experiment

If your ARPU is pretty low, let’s assume like 0.003 Robux, as an example that means a very small change for that value would be detectable since it means your entire user base had a change

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So if it’s possible to detect a small change in ARPU, how come the confidence interval for ARPU is still very wide after 2 weeks?

do you have the link to your experiment that we can review?