Mary Earick Godby
Contributor
Contributor to SAGE Publications's Encyclopedia of Epidemiology (2008) whose work for that encyclopedia formed the basis of her contributions to Britannica.
Primary Contributions (1)
Control group, the standard to which comparisons are made in an experiment. Many experiments are designed to include a control group and one or more experimental groups; in fact, some scholars reserve the term experiment for study designs that include a control group. Ideally, the control group and…
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