Researchers argue that, in some situations where machine-learning models are used to allocate scarce resources or opportunities, randomizing decisions in a structured way may lead to fairer outcomes.

Outcome-adaptive randomization is one of the possible elements of an adaptive trial design in which the ratio of patients randomly assigned to the experimental treatment arm versus the control ...

Comparative Toxicities and Cost of Intensity-Modulated Radiotherapy, Proton Radiation, and Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy Among Younger Men With Prostate Cancer Eligible patients had stage IIB to IIIB ...

Banerjee, Abhijit, Sylvain Chassang, Sergio Montero, and Erik Snowberg. "A Theory of Experimenters: Robustness, Randomization, and Balance." American Economic Review ...

In January 1977, five landmark health surveys, led by the famous Framingham Heart Study, reported a “striking” revelation about HDL cholesterol—a.k.a. the “good cholesterol.” The higher the HDL in a ...

For many years, MAC Address Randomization was slated as the next big thing for protecting user privacy on the modern Internet. The standard, which works by deploying a new MAC address to a device in ...

Since its emergence in December 2019, in Wuhan, China, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has led to more ...