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2. Drawing lots (decision making) - Wikipedia

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   Drawing lots or drawing straws is a selection method, or a form of sortition, that is used by a group to choose one member of the group to perform a task after none has volunteered for it. The same practice can be used also to choose one of several volunteers, should an agreement not be reached. The drawing of lots is sometimes used to ...

3. Wikipedia:Unusual articles - Wikipedia

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   Each entry on this list should be an article on its own (not merely a section in a less unusual article) and of decent quality, and in large meeting Wikipedia's manual of style. For unusual contributions that are of greater levity, see Wikipedia:Silly Things. In this list, a star indicates a featured article. A plus indicates a good article.

4. List of cognitive biases - Wikipedia

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   The tendency to perceive meaningful connections between unrelated things. [17] The following are types of apophenia: Clustering illusion, the tendency to overestimate the importance of small runs, streaks, or clusters in large samples of random data (that is, seeing phantom patterns).

5. Lists of shapes - Wikipedia

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   Solid geometry, including table of major three-dimensional shapes. Box-drawing character. Cuisenaire rods (learning aid) Geometric shape. Geometric Shapes (Unicode block) Glossary of shapes with metaphorical names. List of symbols. Pattern Blocks (learning aid) This article includes a mathematics-related list of lists.

6. Applications of randomness - Wikipedia

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   Randomness has many uses in science, art, statistics, cryptography, gaming, gambling, and other fields. For example, random assignment in randomized controlled trials helps scientists to test hypotheses, and random numbers or pseudorandom numbers help video games such as video poker . These uses have different levels of requirements, which ...

7. Probability distribution - Wikipedia

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   A probability distribution is a mathematical description of the probabilities of events, subsets of the sample space. The sample space, often represented in notation by is the set of all possible outcomes of a random phenomenon being observed. The sample space may be any set: a set of real numbers, a set of descriptive labels, a set of vectors ...

8. Sampling (statistics) - Wikipedia

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   A visual representation of the sampling process. In statistics, quality assurance, and survey methodology, sampling is the selection of a subset or a statistical sample (termed sample for short) of individuals from within a statistical population to estimate characteristics of the whole population. The subset is meant to reflect the whole ...

9. Simple random sample - Wikipedia

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   Simple random sampling merely allows one to draw externally valid conclusions about the entire population based on the sample. The concept can be extended when the population is a geographic area. In this case, area sampling frames are relevant. Conceptually, simple random sampling is the simplest of the probability sampling techniques.