A Group of Medical Practitioners Are Studying the Effects of a Drug

question 2

Multiple Choice

A group of medical practitioners are studying the effects of a drug on patients .They administered the drug to one group, and withheld the intervention / treatment from the other .They determined who was in which group based on a random number generator .This is known as:

• A)Random assignment
• B)Chance assignment
• C)Unsystematic selection
• D)Indiscriminate selection

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