MEANING
To determine an order or assignment by a chance-based procedure.
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Words that belong together
- randomize participants
- randomize the order
- randomly allocated groups
On the page
Participants were randomized to receive one of two reminder messages.
The survey randomized question order to reduce fatigue effects.
A computer program randomized the allocation, but staff could still see the sequence.
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Word forms
- Base
- randomize / randomizes
- Past tense
- randomized
- Past participle
- randomized
- Present participle
- randomizing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- randomize / randomizes
- Present continuous
- am/is/are randomizing
- Present perfect
- have/has randomized
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been randomizing
- Past
- randomized
- Past continuous
- was/were randomizing
- Past perfect
- had randomized
- Past perfect continuous
- had been randomizing
- Future
- will randomize / randomizes
- Future continuous
- will be randomizing
- Future perfect
- will have randomized
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been randomizing
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Usage notes
Primary category: academic. Research randomization reduces systematic allocation bias; it does not guarantee balance in every realized sample. Distinguish random assignment from random sampling. British spelling: randomise. Verb inflections [base, third-person singular, past, past participle, -ing]: randomize, randomizes, randomized, randomized, randomizing. British spelling and inflections: randomise, randomises, randomised, randomised, randomising. Derived family (not inflections): randomization, random.
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