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	Multi-Armed Bandit (UCB, Thompson Sampling)	Test A/B (Esperimento Controllato Online)
Campo	Disegno sperimentale	Disegno sperimentale
Famiglia	Hypothesis test	Hypothesis test
Anno di origine	1952	1935
Ideatore	Robbins (1952); UCB1 by Auer et al. (2002); Thompson sampling by Thompson (1933)	Ron Kohavi et al. (Microsoft); conceptual roots in R. A. Fisher's randomized experiments (1935)
Tipo	Sequential decision / bandit algorithm	Parametric comparison (frequentist or Bayesian)
Fonte seminale	Auer, P., Cesa-Bianchi, N., & Fischer, P. (2002). Finite-Time Analysis of the Multiarmed Bandit Problem. Machine Learning, 47(2–3), 235–256.	Kohavi, R., Tang, D., & Xu, Y. (2020). Trustworthy Online Controlled Experiments: A Practical Guide to A/B Testing. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 9781108724265
Alias	MAB, bandit algorithm, UCB1, Thompson sampling	split test, controlled experiment, two-variant test, A/B Testi (Online Kontrollü Deney)
Correlati	4	4
Sintesi	The multi-armed bandit (MAB) is an adaptive experimental framework that allocates trials sequentially across competing arms to minimise cumulative regret while simultaneously learning which arm performs best. Formalised by Robbins in 1952 and given finite-time guarantees by Auer et al. (2002), it balances exploration of uncertain options against exploitation of currently known best options — outperforming classical A/B testing whenever early stopping or cost-sensitive allocation matters.	An A/B test is a randomized controlled experiment that simultaneously exposes two groups of users to a control variant (A) and a treatment variant (B) in order to determine whether a measured outcome differs significantly between them. The modern online controlled experiment framework was systematized by Ron Kohavi and colleagues at Microsoft in the early 2000s, building on R. A. Fisher's classical randomization principles from 1935. It is the dominant causal inference tool in web product development, digital marketing, and experimentation platforms.