nonrandom
Americanadjective
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not random; showing pattern, regularity, choice, purpose, etc.
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Statistics. made up of or coming from a set whose members did not have equal chances of being selected, such as a set selected according to the convenience or bias of the researcher or on a volunteer basis.
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I am a nonrandom sample of one, and the colonoscopy was normal.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 10, 2024
Einstein, too, believed that specific causes must have specific, nonrandom effects, and he doubted the existence of free will.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 10, 2022
English words follow additional nonrandom principles that help us quickly funnel down the list of possible solutions and the best guesses to find them.
From Slate ● Feb. 5, 2022
The first is that we can make nonrandom mutations.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 27, 2015
Convenience sampling is a nonrandom method of choosing a sample that often produces biased data.
From Textbooks ● Sep. 19, 2013
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