Meaning of control group in English
(Definition of control group from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of control group
control group
The control group may receive a placebo and/or another drug, often a so-called gold standard that is best drug marketed for the disease.
It is defined as the proportion of improved patients in the treatment group, divided by the proportion of improved patients in the control group.
If available, a control group should be in use, if possible with the qualitative studies that are done.
Isolation calls in a control group that had no reference signal did not show the same adaptation.
Following the study, the experimental group demonstrated an increase in happiness levels while the control group did not.
In a single-blind experiment, the individual subjects do not know whether they are so-called test subjects or members of an experimental control group.
First, it is difficult if not impossible to establish a control group.
The control group received a postcard reminding women to get preventive screening.
Subjects in the exercise group experienced significant increases in strength for almost all muscle groups when compared to the control group.
The control group for the study comprised 456 boys who were assessed as non-delinquent.
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