randomize
随机化,随机安排,随机排列,随机应变
Definitions
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ran·dom·ized, ran·dom·iz·ing.
- : to order or select in a random manner, as in a sample or experiment, especially in order to reduce bias and interference caused by irrelevant variables; make random.
Examples
Over time, as other treatments showed no effect, more patients got randomized to the fluvoxamine arm of the trial — letting the researchers learn more about the drug that seemed the most promising.
After you have randomized 200 patients to the drug, if you can’t tell that it’s working, it’s probably not a very good drug.
All the data they pooled came from randomized controlled trials, the gold standard of scientific evidence, which randomizes participants into a treatment or no-treatment group.
While they might be willing to take a risk on a new treatment, “the last thing they want is to be randomized to a control arm,” Borys says.
In a natural experiment, conditions out in the world, that we have no control over, randomize patients for us, if only by accident.