nonrandomly
- adverb
- /nɒnˈrændəmli/
- The researchers nonrandomly assigned participants to different groups based on their backgrounds.
- nonrandomly selected
Examples
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No significant differences were found between randomly and nonrandomly selected participants.
Academic text (2008) -
Epidemiologists have long known that disease occurs nonrandomly in space (Ostfeld et al. 2005, 2008; McCallum 2008).
Academic text (2010) -
The team used face-to-face interviews of both randomly and nonrandomly selected samples of Hispanics/Latinos attending the festival.
Academic text (2008) -
The mouse X chromosome is nonrandomly maternally inactivated in mammary epithelial cells 23.
Blog text (26) -
Of those, 301 (56 percent) were randomly selected, and 234 (43.7 percent) were nonrandomly selected.
Academic text (2008) -
The firm nonrandomly recruits large numbers of volunteer respondents, from which it uses proximity matching to the American Community Survey (in this case, the 2008 survey) conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau to construct a representative sample of adults in the United States.
Academic text (2014) -
He has discovered that a number of very unique pulsars are nonrandomly distributed in the sky and mark key Galactic locations that have particular significance from an ETI communication standpoint.
Blog text (32) -
In the experiment, data was collected nonrandomly to ensure that specific trends could be identified.
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The patterns in the population's behavior were nonrandomly observed, revealing insights into their preferences.
Synonyms
On purpose as part of a plan
In a way that always gives the same result from the same starting conditions
In a way that is not by chance but because something caused it
Antonyms
How Randomly
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Nonrandomly breaks into non- ('not'), random ('without pattern' or 'by chance'), and -ly (makes a word an adverb, like in quickly). So, nonrandomly means doing something 'not by chance' — in a planned or patterned way.