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Random selection, with a bias ...
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posted by Paolo Magnoli on Mon 08 Sep 2008 17:04 UTC
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(edit) mysql, sql, database, firebird, query, bias, random selection, data skew
Say you want to randomly select your employee of the month, but not so randomly, better, you'd like to give your best employees a bigger chance to be selected based on their rating.This is just an example, you could be randomly displaying ads from your customers, but giving an higher chance to be displayed to those who are paying more, there can be a million other example, but I hope you got the
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