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Random

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The process by which an outcome is determined solely by chance, for example, by a coin flip.

A randomized controlled trial is a clinical trial that involves at least one test treatment and one control treatment and in which the treatments to be administered are selected by a random process, such as the use of a table of random numbers.

The opposite of random is nonrandom.

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