randomised
Adjective 1. Set up or distributed in a deliberately random way: Describes a process, arrangement, or selection that has been made intentionally random, often to eliminate bias or ensure fairness, especially in scientific experiments, trials, or sampling.
The adjective "randomised" is primarily used in formal, scientific, and technical contexts, particularly in research methodology. It describes the key characteristic of a process designed to assign items, subjects, or treatments by chance alone. * It is commonly used before a noun (e.g., a randomised trial) or after a linking verb like "be" or "was" (e.g., The selection process was randomised). * The spelling "randomized" is the standard form in American English, while "randomised" is common in British English.
- The study's credibility relies on its randomised control group.
- Participants were assigned to either the treatment or placebo group using a randomised procedure.
- For the survey, we obtained a randomised sample of the population.
- The order of questions in the test was fully randomised to prevent any sequence effects.
- "Double-blind randomised controlled trial (RCT)": This is a gold-standard research design where neither the participants nor the researchers know who is receiving the treatment or the placebo, and assignment to these groups is random.
- "Randomised algorithm": In computer science, an algorithm that makes random choices during its execution to solve a problem, often to improve average performance or simplicity.
- Randomize (verb): To make random; to arrange or select in a random way.
- Researchers will randomize the participants into two groups.
- Randomization (noun): The act or process of making something random.
- Randomization helps minimize selection bias.
- Random (adjective): Made, done, or happening without method or conscious decision.
- He made a random guess.
- Haphazard: Lacking any obvious principle of organization. (Note: "Haphazard" often implies accident or lack of planning, while "randomised" implies a deliberate, methodological process to achieve randomness.)
- Arbitrary: Based on random choice or personal whim, rather than any reason or system. (Note: "Arbitrary" can imply a lack of fairness, while "randomised" is a neutral, procedural term.)
- Chance: Denoting something that happens by accident or without planning.
- At random: Without method or conscious decision.
- Names were picked at random from a hat.
- Random sample: A sample in which every member of the population has an equal chance of being selected.
- set up or distributed in a deliberately random way