What Term Is Used to Describe the Process in Which

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Short Answer

What term is used to describe the process in which everyone in a sample has an equal chance of being placed in either the control or experimental group?

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Definitions:

Type II Error

The statistical error that occurs when one fails to reject a false null hypothesis, a mistake of not detecting an effect that is there.

Nonparametric Techniques

Statistical methods that do not assume a specific distribution for the data they are analyzing.

Parametric Techniques

Statistical methods based on assumptions about the distribution of the underlying population from which the sample data are drawn.

Confidence Interval

A range of values, derived from statistical analysis, that is likely to contain the value of an unknown parameter with a specified level of confidence.