Answer to Question #151128 in Statistics and Probability for Niaa Johnson

Question

Assuming that you have 50 subjects that you want to randomly assign to two different groups of 25, explain how you would use a random number table to do it.

Answer 1

First, we number the 50 subjects serially in a suitable order from 1 to 50. Then we draw two digited numbers from the random table row-wise (or column-wise). We will take a number from 0 to 99. The remainder varies from 0 to 49. 0 remainder is taken to mean number 50. Now, we take 25 subjects corresponding to the first 25 random numbers for Group 1 and the remaining 25 subjects for group 2.