Random Selection Is a Process in Which Participants Are Selected

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Random selection is a process in which participants are selected randomly from a larger group such that every group member has an equal chance of being included in the study.

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Definitions:

Null Hypothesis

A default position that there is no association between two measured phenomena or no difference among groups being compared.

Two-Tailed Test

A statistical hypothesis test in which the critical area for a distribution is two-sided and tests whether a sample is greater than or less than a certain range of values.

Sample Proportions

The fraction of items in a sample that are of a particular type.

Standard Error

A measure of the standard deviation of the sampling distribution of a statistic, often used in the estimation of confidence intervals.