Look up: randomisation

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   Randomisation
   The process of ensuring that a sample is truly random. There are many ways of doing this, and to different levels. The entire sample should be chosen according to some strategy that does not unduly favour any particular group of individuals. A further level ensures that the subjects already chosen for the study are randomly allocated to the treatments of the study. This removes any suspicion that unscrupulous experimenters ensure that their particular hobby horse is tried out on the most susceptible subjects.
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   Randomisation
   The allocation to a treatment group that is performed at random.
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   Randomisation
   Process of putting into groups by chance, to make sure there is no bias.
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   Randomisation
   The random assignment of subjects to experimental and control groups (i.e. the allocation to groups is determined by chance)
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   randomisation
   the process by which experimental units (the basic objects upon which the study or experiment is carried out) are allocated to treatments; that is, by a random process and not by any subjective and hence possibly biased approach. The treatments should be allocated to units in such a way that each treatment is equally likely to be applied to each unit Category: Statistics • the generati...
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   Randomisation
   Definition (keystage 3) A method used in experimental design where the objects are assigned by random to different treatment groups.
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   Randomisation
   Definition (keystage 3) The process of making sure that a sample is being collected at random; that no bias is being introduced to the data by the way they are collected.
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   randomisation
   <statistics> The process by which patients in a clinical trial are randomly assigned to different treatments Randomisation minimizes the differences among groups by equally distributing people with particular characteristics among all the trial arms. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...
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