control group

English

Noun

control group (plural control groups)

1. (in an experiment) The group of test subjects left untreated or unexposed to some procedure and then compared with treated subjects in order to validate the results of the test.

Synonyms

• control

Translations

group of test subjects left untreated

Bulgarian: контро́лна гру́па f (kontrólna grúpa) Chinese: Mandarin: 對照組 / 对照组 Danish: kontrolgruppe c Estonian: kontrollgrupp Finnish: vertailuryhmä French: groupe témoin m Georgian: საკონტროლო ჯგუფი (saḳonṭrolo ǯgupi) German: Kontrollgruppe (de) f Hebrew: בִּקֹּרֶת / ביקורת (he) f (biqóret) Malay: kelompok kawalan Polish: grupa kontrolna f Romanian: grup de control n, grup de comparație n Russian: контро́льная гру́ппа f (kontrólʹnaja grúppa) Spanish: patrón de comparación m Swedish: kontrollgrupp (sv) c Ukrainian: контро́льна гру́па f (kontrólʹna hrúpa)

Further reading

• control group on Wikipedia.Wikipedia