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Randomization

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Randomization refers to the selection of an element a, from a set A, according to some probability distribution P on A.

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Berger, J.O. (2018). Randomization. In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_1593

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