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PSI (Population Stability Index)
A binned measure of distribution shift between a reference and current sample. <0.1 stable, 0.1–0.25 moderate, >0.25 significant.
Why interviewers ask about it
PSI measures effect size, which is why it is the operational alert. KS p-values fire on nearly every feature every day at 10M rows.
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