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Random error

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Random error is residual error, and is, particularly, an example of how randomness can be applied to help you identify and quantify real data effects. It is the amount of uncertainty in the outcome of your study and it is the measure of spread in your data.

Traditionally its magnitude is tested against the magnitude of the main study result, expressed in a mean value, mean difference, proportion, odds ratio, etc. The ratio of the two magnitudes are the socalled standardized study result that should be larger than two standard errors in order for a trial to be statistically significant.

Random access

When you have random access to a data file, this is to say that you will have a direct access to each data value, and you do not need to take multiple prior steps for the purpose.

Random selection

Random selection is the procedure whereby participants in a study are randomly selected from the entire target population, which is the population we want to make predictions about.

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Systematic and Random Error
There are two types of measurement errors: systematic and random. Bias and error reduces or destroys measurement validity. Bias is the distance between the true response and mean of the obtained responses. A good measurement tool should try to measure a variable as close to its true value. But...
(Evaluation of health promotion and disease prevention programs : improving population health through evidence-based practice)
Random Error and the Role of Statistics
Statistics plays two main roles in the analysis of epidemiologic data: first, to measure variability in the data in an effort to assess the role of chance, and second, to estimate effects after correcting for biases such as confounding. This chapter concentrates on the assessment of variability. The...
(Epidemiology: An Introduction)
Random Access Benchmark (GUPs)
The Random Access Benchmark (GUPs) is intended to assess the ability of an interconnect and its associated network software stack to efficiently handle many small, concurrent load/store accesses to a data table distributed across multiple nodes in a systems. The modified version of the HPCC RandomAc-...
(OpenSHMEM and Related Technologies. Enhancing OpenSHMEM for Hybrid Environments: Third Workshop, OpenSHMEM 2016, Baltimore, MD, USA, August 2 – 4, 2016, Revised Selected Papers)
Stability, Random Access, and Self-Reference
In preliterate cultures, speech was a dynamic, context-dependent activity rarely involving more than a few people. Unlike vervet monkeys, humans can talk about things distant in time and space, but the act of talking itself is still anchored to the here and now. For our ancestors, utterances were evanescent;...
(Behavior and Culture in One Dimension: Sequences, Affordances, and the Evolution of Complexity)
Random selection
Arguably, the most striking aspect of mini-publics is the mode of selection.7 Random selection (or sortition) has a long democratic heritage: it was the preferred method for selecting positions of political authority in the Athenian polis and continued to play a part in republican thought and practice...
(Evaluating Democratic Innovations: Curing the Democratic Malaise?)
Distractor Pool Method With Random Selection
The second method for generating distractors is used when the elements used to create the correct option are first specified. Using this logic, a distractor can be created as an element that contains content that is related to the correct option because it shares some but not all of the features of the...
(Advanced Methods in Automatic Item Generation: Theoretical Foundations and Practical Applications)