nonrandom

adj

1. (not-comparable)Not random; caused or manipulated; arranged.

   “The apparent accident was a nonrandom event: someone carefully arranged it to happen when and where it did.”

   “The evidence presented indicates that the regional variations in uranium content in rhyolitic and dacitic rocks are nonrandom in nature.”

   “As an example of the method, table 1 summarizes the computations used in estimating the variance of the random component of early fall lettuce yields in California for the years 1918–57. The question is: Beginning with which difference is it reasonably certain that the nonrandom element has been eliminated, leaving an estimate of the random variance?”

   “Confidence intervals can be used to isolate areas of discrepancies if bias exist as being a result of either a 'nonrandom selection technique or a non-representative selection list.”

   “There is no need to consider those individuals who survive the process of nonrandom elimination to be the products fo a goal-directed process.”