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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a random control" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used in contexts related to research, experiments, or studies where a control group is selected randomly. Example: "In our study, we included a random control to ensure the validity of our results."
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A commonly used measure of modularity is due to Newman [ 17], who assumes that modularity implies that nodes in the same module have more connections between them than would be expected for a random control, that is, a network where all the module assignments have been randomized.
It has been running a random control trial – the gold standard in research practices – for a "multi-systemic therapy" service for children in trouble with the police.
Consequently, a random control design was previously introduced.
A random control design was used to compare the impact of three interventions (eccentric viewing, magnification and combined intervention) on the performance of daily function.
The experimental design was based on a random control assignment into three treatment groups (with different forms of feedback) and a control group (with no feedback).
In some of our analyses, we need to compare our statistics for the MRSA-positive patients with the results for a random control set of patients that are not tested for MRSA.
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To ensure a truly random control, we randomly permuted the order of samples in miRNA (or mRNA) profiles and repeated the analysis 100 times.
This could have resulted in greater similarity of dmft/DMFT scores between patients and their controls (compared to a truly random control population).
In this example, a warp function computed based on multilevel B-spline interpolation of a set of random control point pairs is applied to a coronary angiography image).
This means that in a randomized control trial, random allocation ensures that Γ is equal to 1.
However, a more realistic random control is to also keep the degree distribution the same as the real PPI network (i.e., to preserve the truncated power-law distribution [32]).
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