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  • noun UK Alternative spelling of randomization.

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  • noun a deliberately haphazard arrangement of observations so as to simulate chance

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Examples

  • Trials described as double-blind, with adequate randomisation, were assumed to be of higher methodological quality.

    Nightmare Advice on Allergies Steve Carper 2008

  • Working out the exact probabilities of specific clusters of birthdays, assuming births at random and accounting for leap years, was hard so we wussed out and did randomisation tests.

    Archive 2008-09-01 MissPrism 2008

  • I have little musical ability but have written this to introduce my new year 10 students to the range of instruments, use of variables and randomisation using Scratch

    scratch music worksheet Bill Kerr 2008

  • There is still a risk that the randomisation won't work though, and you'll get a randomly distributed confounder you need to check.

    Arden: Final Results 2008

  • I have little musical ability but have written this to introduce my new year 10 students to the range of instruments, use of variables and randomisation using Scratch

    Archive 2008-06-01 Bill Kerr 2008

  • * No address randomisation is used in by the operating system

    Squirrel Boy is feeling scared 2007

  • The temporal organisation of stretches of action potentials was also evaluated with a statistical test, which required a randomisation of the neuronal activity, based on the statistics of the activity itself.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Guillaume Osterstock et al. 2010

  • The temporal organisation of stretches of action potentials was also evaluated with a statistical test, which required a randomisation of the neuronal activity, based on the statistics of the activity itself.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Guillaume Osterstock et al. 2010

  • Because of the randomisation, any effect will presumably be thanks to the fertiliser.

    the alpha and omega Mahalanobis 2010

  • That could change down the road, Storms said, pointing out Microsoft's DEP (data execution prevention) and ASLR (address space layout randomisation) defences as examples.

    Techworld.com News 2010

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