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We assign subjects using a controlled vocabulary called Faceted Application of Subject Terminology (FAST).
In the end, they decided to randomly assign subjects at high risk of heart disease to three groups.
The scales are also useful when researchers randomly assign subjects to different groups -- giving each group a different drug, for example -- and compare the results.
And the researchers did not always assign subjects randomly to one treatment or another to see which one worked better.
These trials randomly assign subjects to receive either the experimental treatment (for example, a new drug being tested for efficacy) or a comparator (either an existing treatment or a placebo), such that even the investigators do not know until the very end which subject received what treatment, preventing their observations from being biased by prior expectations.
A 2 × 2 factorial design was used to randomly assign subjects to 1 of 4 treatment arms: immediate treatment with MTX plus etanercept, immediate oral triple therapy (MTX plus sulfasalazine plus hydroxychloroquine), or step-up from MTX monotherapy to one of the combination therapies (MTX plus etanercept or MTX plus sulfasalazine plus hydroxychloroquine) at week 24 if the DAS28-ESR was ≥ 3.2.
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To enhance the discoverability of books, etc., catalogers assign subject headings, i.e. concepts and meaningful compound phrases taken from an official list.
Interface with assigned subjects roughly weekly.
These narrators tend to have quirky connections to their assigned subjects.
Minimization should be the method of choice in assigning subjects in all clinical trials.
Some of these assigned subjects were a great deal more difficult to manage than others, none simpler or more agreeable than Woody Allen.
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