What Sample Group number mean?

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Gabriela Oprescu

• December 16, 2021 13:56

I understand that Pendo is assigning random group numbers from 0 to 99 to visitors, but what these numbers mean? e.g if an user has sample group 35 and one has sample group 98, how I can interpret this data?

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  Greg Nutt

  • December 16, 2021 14:20

  Sample Group is an automatic metadata flag assigned to each unique Visitor at random between 0 and 99.  The effect of this is that each Sample Group contains, roughly, 1% of your total Visitor population.  You can use this flag to establish Test and Train groups for experimentation and analysis within your product.

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  Gabriela Oprescu

  • December 16, 2021 18:10

  Thank you Greg! 

  To get a better sense of what this means: for example I can create a segment of sample group 98, and this will guarantee that whatever I plan to test I will get to 1% of the total Visitor population. the more sample groups I add the more I control the increase of the % reach of the visitors?

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  Greg Nutt

  • December 16, 2021 18:24

  You've got it!  I will reiterate there is a roughness to that percentage due to how Visitors are randomly assigned and growing nature of Visitors to your product.  But the percentages will be ~1% per Sample Group.

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