Estimate a video's effect on sales from viewing intensity across markets

Causal inferenceHard

Problem. You want to estimate how much a main-channel video lifted Feastables sales, using weekly sales per store across 40 markets and each market's views of the video per 100 people. The video went out everywhere at the same time. Build the analysis, and say how you'd check it.

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