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Masking
Masking see blinding/masking.
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Blinding/masking
A procedure in which one or more parties to the trial are kept unaware of the treatment assignments. Single-blinding usually refers to the subject(s) being unaware, and doubleblinding usually refers to the subject(s), investigators, monitor, and, in some cases, data analyst(s) being unaware of the treatment assignments.
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Mode
The most frequently occurring value in a data set.
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