Session Duration as a Resource Input beyond Conversion Ranking
Abstract
The question concerns session duration as a review or service-resource input. The secondary ordinary least squares analysis contains 12,330 observations and uses HC3 covariance. The coefficient on log_pages is 1.5766, with a 95 percent interval from 1.5525 to 1.6007. Duration represents potential service or review work rather than purchase quality. A top group chosen by conversion can have different resource implications from one chosen by duration. Fixed-candidate opportunity loss needs the actual consequence and cost scale. Those are not inferred from a session association, so a later retained-set workflow should measure both independently. The estimates describe the released collection and its conditioning set. No new data collection, simulator experiment, or deployment-policy evaluation is claimed.
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