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A/B Testing: Design, Execute, and Interpret

Build trustworthy experiments that improve products, marketing, and business decisions

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Quick Course Facts
18
Self-paced, Online, Lessons
18
Videos and/or Narrated Presentations
6.2
Approximate Hours of Course Media
About the A/B Testing: Design, Execute, and Interpret Course

A/B Testing: Design, Execute, and Interpret is a practical Business course for teams that want to make better product, marketing, and growth decisions with evidence instead of guesswork. You will learn how to plan, run, and interpret controlled experiments so you can build trustworthy experiments that improve products, marketing, and business decisions.

Design And Execute A/B Tests That Improve Business Decisions

  • Turn Business questions into clear, testable hypotheses with measurable outcomes.
  • Choose the right audiences, metrics, sample sizes, and test durations before launch.
  • Interpret winners, losers, and inconclusive results without common statistical mistakes.
  • Communicate experiment findings clearly so stakeholders can make confident decisions.

Learn the full A/B testing workflow, from experiment design and measurement strategy to execution, analysis, and Business decision-making.

This course explains why A/B testing matters and how causal thinking, randomization, and valid comparisons help teams separate real impact from noise. You will learn how to design variants that test one clear idea, define eligibility rules, and select primary, secondary, and guardrail metrics that reflect practical Business value.

As you progress through A/B Testing: Design, Execute, and Interpret, you will build skills in sample size planning, statistical power, minimum detectable effects, p-values, confidence intervals, and test duration. The course also covers how to avoid peeking, false positives, multiple testing errors, biased monitoring, and unreliable segment analysis.

You will also learn how to set up tracking, perform QA, document experiments, diagnose broken or contaminated tests, and translate results into product or marketing decisions. By the end, you will be able to build trustworthy experiments that improve products, marketing, and business decisions while creating a stronger experimentation roadmap for your organization.

Course Lessons

Full lesson breakdown

Lessons are organized by topic area and each includes descriptive copy for search visibility and student clarity.

Experimentation Foundations

2 lessons

This lesson introduces A/B testing as a disciplined way to make better product, marketing, and business decisions under uncertainty. Learners will see why experiments are more reliable than opinions, …

Lesson 2: Causal Thinking, Randomization, and Valid Comparisons

22 min
This lesson builds the causal foundation for trustworthy A/B tests. Learners will distinguish correlation from causation, define what a valid comparison requires, and understand why randomization is t…

Experiment Planning

3 lessons

Lesson 3: Turning Business Questions into Testable Hypotheses

20 min
This lesson teaches how to convert vague business questions into clear, testable A/B testing hypotheses. You will learn how to separate decisions from curiosities, identify the behavior you expect to …

Lesson 4: Choosing Audiences, Units of Randomization, and Eligibility Rules

21 min
This lesson shows how to define who can enter an experiment, what exactly gets randomized, and when users or accounts should be excluded. These decisions shape whether an A/B test is trustworthy, inte…

Lesson 5: Designing Variants That Test One Clear Idea

18 min
This lesson shows how to design A/B test variants that isolate one clear idea. You will learn how to turn a hypothesis into a focused control-versus-treatment comparison, avoid bundled changes that ma…

Measurement Strategy

2 lessons

Lesson 6: Selecting Primary, Secondary, and Guardrail Metrics

23 min
This lesson explains how to choose metrics that make an A/B test decision-ready before the experiment begins. You will learn the distinct jobs of primary, secondary, and guardrail metrics, how to conn…

Lesson 7: Baseline Rates, Minimum Detectable Effects, and Practical Impact

22 min
This lesson explains how baseline rates, minimum detectable effects, and practical impact shape the measurement strategy for an A/B test. Learners will see why experiment planning cannot start with sa…

Statistics for A/B Testing

3 lessons

Lesson 8: Sample Size, Statistical Power, and Test Duration

24 min
This lesson explains how to choose a sample size and realistic test duration before launching an A/B test. Students learn the relationship between baseline conversion rate, minimum detectable effect, …

Lesson 9: Significance, P-Values, and Confidence Intervals Explained

24 min
This lesson explains the statistical language that A/B testing teams use to decide whether an observed result is likely to reflect a real difference or ordinary random variation. You will learn what s…

Lesson 10: Avoiding Peeking, False Positives, and Multiple Testing Errors

23 min
This lesson explains three common ways trustworthy A/B tests become misleading: checking results too often, treating random noise as a real effect, and running many comparisons without adjusting the i…

Experiment Execution

2 lessons

Lesson 11: Setting Up Tracking, QA, and Experiment Documentation

20 min
This lesson covers the operational work that makes an A/B test trustworthy before any visitor sees it: tracking setup, quality assurance, and experiment documentation. You will learn how to define eve…

Lesson 12: Launching and Monitoring Tests Without Biasing Results

19 min
This lesson covers the operational discipline needed to launch and monitor A/B tests without contaminating the evidence. Students learn how to prepare a launch checklist, verify assignment and trackin…

Result Interpretation

3 lessons

Lesson 13: Reading Results: Winners, Losers, and Inconclusive Outcomes

22 min
This lesson teaches how to read A/B test results without overreacting to a single dashboard label. You will learn how to classify outcomes as winners, losers, or inconclusive by combining the primary …

Lesson 14: Segment Analysis Without Cherry-Picking

21 min
This lesson teaches how to use segment analysis responsibly after an A/B test without turning the results into a search for whichever subgroup looks best. Learners will distinguish planned segment rea…

Lesson 15: Diagnosing Broken or Contaminated Experiments

20 min
Broken or contaminated experiments can make a confident-looking result worse than no result at all. This lesson teaches how to diagnose experiment health before interpreting lift, p-values, confidence…

Decision Making

1 lesson

Lesson 16: From Test Result to Product or Marketing Decision

19 min
This lesson shows how to turn an A/B test result into a clear product or marketing decision without overreacting to a single number. You will learn how to combine statistical evidence, practical impac…

Experimentation Program Management

2 lessons

Lesson 17: Building an Experimentation Roadmap and Prioritization System

21 min
This lesson shows how to turn scattered A/B test ideas into a managed experimentation roadmap. Learners will build a practical intake, scoring, sequencing, and governance system that keeps experiments…

Lesson 18: Communicating Findings to Stakeholders Clearly

18 min
This lesson teaches a practical structure for communicating A/B test findings to stakeholders who need to make decisions, not audit every statistical detail. You will learn how to turn an experiment r…
About Your Instructor
Professor John Ingram

Professor John Ingram

Professor John Ingram guides this AI-built Virversity course with a clear, practical teaching style.