Filter Exposures

Filter Exposures by Qualifying Event

You can use Qualifying Events to filter exposures to units that did or did not trigger an event after being exposed. This is useful for analysis-only experiments where the assignment tool may have over-exposed units (for example, assigning units on page load when the intervention was only triggered when a button was clicked).

Use this tool with caution. It is possible to introduce post-assignment data into your assignment data, biasing results. For this reason, Statsig disables qualifying event filters by default on Assign and Analyze experiments, because the Statsig SDK typically doesn't over-expose units. Contact the Statsig team to enable this feature if you have a use case for it.

The available settings are:

• Qualifying Event: the event source to qualify exposures with. You can filter this to pick specific target events within a qualifying event source.
• Exclude matching units: whether to include or exclude units that triggered the event.
• Use qualifying event timestamp for first exposures: if the actual intervention occurred when the unit triggered the qualifying event, enable this setting so that Statsig overrides the exposure timestamp with the qualifying event timestamp.
• Filter events by time window: restrict qualifying event matching to events that occurred within X days or minutes of the unit's exposure event.

Filter Assignment Source

You can also filter exposures to units based on columns in the assignment source. You can use certain columns directly and apply additional filters on top.

As with filtering by qualifying event, use this tool carefully because it can artificially introduce bias to experiment results.