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)
• Danish: kontrolgruppe c
• Estonian: kontrollgrupp
• Finnish: vertailuryhmä
• French: groupe témoin m
• German: Kontrollgruppe (de) f
• Hebrew: בִּקֹּרֶת / ביקורת‎ (he) f (biqóret)
• 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 c
• Ukrainian: контро́льна гру́па f (kontrólʹna hrúpa)

Further reading

• control group on Wikipedia.Wikipedia