Timeline for Can a truly randomized procedure (e.g. random treatment allocation) result in unbalanced distributions?
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| Jun 21, 2023 at 20:32 | answer | added | COOLSerdash | timeline score: 6 | |
| Feb 17, 2017 at 21:53 | history | edited | mdewey |
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| May 12, 2015 at 2:09 | comment | added | Russ Lenth | The purpose of randomization is not to guarantee unambiguous results. It is to help establish the validity of the statistical model being used to do the analysis. | |
| May 11, 2015 at 0:24 | comment | added | Glen_b | There are ways to guarantee balance (or any desired degree of imbalance) while performing random allocation. You can, for example, do the equivalent of having $w$ white balls and $b$ black balls randomly drawn without replacement. This generalizes to multiple different treatment groups (more colors of balls) | |
| May 11, 2015 at 0:21 | answer | added | John Doe | timeline score: 3 | |
| May 10, 2015 at 22:54 | history | asked | Adam Robinsson | CC BY-SA 3.0 |