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  • noun The process of making random.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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

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Examples

  • The beauty of randomization is that the lotteried-in and lotteried-out students were the same — not just in background and prior achievement — but also in motivation.

    How Can the Achievement Gap Be Closed? A Freakonomics Quorum - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • The beauty of randomization is that the lotteried-in and lotteried-out students were the same — not just in background and prior achievement — but also in motivation.

    How Can the Achievement Gap Be Closed? A Freakonomics Quorum - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • As early as the mid-1950s, Dr. Meier was one of the first and most vocal proponents of what is called "randomization."

    NYT > Home Page By DENNIS HEVESI 2011

  • As early as the mid-1950s, Dr. Meier was one of the first and most vocal proponents of what is called "randomization."

    NYT > Home Page By DENNIS HEVESI 2011

  • As early as the mid-1950s, Dr. Meier was one of the first and most vocal proponents of what is called "randomization."

    Boing Boing Cory Doctorow 2011

  • As early as the mid-1950s, Dr. Meier was one of the first and most vocal proponents of what is called "randomization."

    NYT > Home Page By DENNIS HEVESI 2011

  • Manage and post multiple ads in multiple categories with body and title randomization features.

    Digital Point Forums 2009

  • I’m sure that coaches do not want to test if randomization is true just like stock brokers don’t want to believe in the random walk theory. —

    Why Don’t Sports Teams Use Randomization? A Guest Post - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007

  • The Measurement Factory, 25 percent of DNS servers in the sample group have not been upgraded to perform source port randomization, which is considered the patch for the vulnerability identified earlier this year by Dan Kaminsky, director of penetration testing at IOActive.

    Techworld Australia News 2008

  • The empirical evidence regarding the danger of systematic error suggests that inclusion of bias-controlling measures; such as randomization, blinding and attrition control, into the study design of clinical trials is justified.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles 2010

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  • I found this through the random word feature ...

    October 20, 2008