Word: randomness
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...senior year asked for information about psychiatric or counseling help from sources other than the University Health Services. The independent variables for this study thus consist of students who had psychiatric help from the University Health Services and from other sources. For comparison there are those students in the random samples who did not receive any psychiatric help. Slide I presents the distribution of these variables. The two classes are not different; approximately 20 percent of each sample received some kind of psychiatric help before graduation. The size of the sample and its randomness make it possible to generalize this...
FATHERS by Herbert Gold. 308 pages. Random House...
...Random samples of students from the Harvard Classes of 1964 and 1965 were followed for the duration of their college careers. By using samples from two different classes, we could in effect "repeat our experiment," or test our initial hypotheses. From the first of the random samples we selected a smaller group (initially 50) for an in depth, or case history study...
...similarity of the two random samples (from the Classes of 1964 and 1965) in the senior years makes us suspect that there may be something to the idea of a typical Harvard pattern. If a given class varies from this on entrance, slight though this variation be, there is a shift toward the typical pattern by graduation...
...House Armed Services Committee will write the legislation, at first seemed opposed to the President's program, in particular to the lottery idea, which under present circumstances would become a form of Viet Nam roulette. Rivers had employed his own advisory panel, which flatly rejected any system of random selection, and the chairman apparently differed with the President on other points as well...