to randomize
- verb
- /ˈrændəˌmaɪz/
- Specialized
- In order to conduct a fair experiment, we need to randomize the order in which the participants receive the treatments.
- randomized trial
- randomized presentation
- randomized order
So now let's use my coin to randomise this a little bit.
- So now let's use my coin to randomise this a little bit.
- You were, you were randomized to a high fiber diet or a fermented foods diet.
- So what you do is you recreate opening those packs by having a full collection of all the cards that you can then randomize and make your own fake booster packs.
- However, one thing he did that was very impressive, he did what we often don't do, which is called randomizing the first patient, right?
- So if you're playing to get really good players, you need to first of all decide what, what is the fraction of times that you're going to randomize?
- You take your patients at that early time point and you randomize them to either start dialysis or wait, and that's when the clock starts ticking.
- We say we will randomize the friction, so we will randomize the masses, the length of the different objects and their, I guess dimensions.
- And the study that hasn't been done yet to really answer that question is to randomize kids to telling this group of kids you just do your normal life.
Examples
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The trial presentation order was randomized for each participant.
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What we did in the trial is we randomized people to three arms.
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What do you mean when you say you have to randomize between two tests?
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And the new type of strategy is to randomize over your existing strategies.
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And since they fall through the air, that helps to randomize the patterns.
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Well, you randomize someone to a medication.
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For this reason, we could not completely randomize interventions.
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So now let's use my coin to randomise this a little bit.
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Arguably, the most important randomized prevention trial in the past two decades was the Fast Track trial.
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We're conducting a double-blind, placebo-controlled randomized trial throughout the United States.
Synonyms
Change the order of things so they are random
To mix things like cards or songs so their order is random
Mix cards so their order becomes random
Antonyms
How Random
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Randomize comes from the word random plus the verb ending -ize, so it literally means 'make something random'. A helpful image is shuffling a deck of cards: to randomize is to mix things so their order is 'unpredictable', which people use in studies or tests to stop unfair results.