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The Role of Randomization in Inference

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2022

Dennis V. Lindley
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Who is there that has not longed that the power and privilege of selection among alternatives should be taken away from him in some important crisis of his life, and that his conduct should be arranged for him, either this way or that, by some divine power if it were possible, — by some patriarchal power in the absence of divinity, — or by chance even, if nothing better than chance could be found to do it? Anthony Trollope Phineas Finn Vol. II, Ch. LX.

In the design and analysis of an experiment there are several places where an element of randomization can be used: the design can be selected at random, the result can have a random element adjoined to it, or the random element already present can be used in the analysis. The first technique is much used by statisticians; for example, in making a survey of a population, Basu (1980) calls it prerandomization.

Type
Part XI. Randomization in Statistical Inference and Experimental Design
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PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association , Volume 1982 , Issue 2: Volume Two: Symposia and Invited Papers 1982 , 1982 , pp. 431 - 446
Copyright
Copyright © 1983 Philosophy of Science Association

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