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Participants in an experimental study receive the treatment. Typically, participants are randomly assigned to either the treatment group, which receives the experimental treatment, or the control group, which does not receive the treatment or receives a standard treatment for comparison.
placebo effect
When setting up an experimental procedure one prepares a control treatment as well as one or more experimental treatments. At the end of the experiment, if there is no difference between the experimental and control groups the experiment is typically said to be not conclusive. With a typical set-up, this result generally fails to lead to a rejection of the null hypothesis.
The group which does not receive experimental treatment is the control group, the group which does receive the treatment is the experimental group.
An investigation in which a group that receives some experimental treatment is compared to a group that does not receive the experimental treatment can be called a placebo-controlled study or a comparative experiment, both of which are types of clinical studies. The group receiving the experimental treatment is called the treatment group, and the group that is not receiving the experimental treatment is called the control group.
the experimental group
When setting up an experimental procedure one prepares a control treatment as well as one or more experimental treatments. At the end of the experiment, if there is no difference between the experimental and control groups the experiment is typically said to be not conclusive. With a typical set-up, this result generally fails to lead to a rejection of the null hypothesis.
control treatment
No - except in cases where there is no cure for their condition and a new experimental treatment has shown promise and the parents elect to see if the experimental procedure might help. In that respect the child is part of medical research.
the control group does not receive receive an experimental treatment but stay in the same environment.
A group of experimental subjects that is not exposed to a chemical or treatment being investigated so that it can be compared with experimental groups that are exposed to the chemical or treatment. cw: An experimental control may be the control group. In general, the experimental control is something that allows you to say that the treatment effects on the experimental group are due to the treatments, rather than anything else.
In an experimental design comparing two groups in which one group gets one treatment and another group gets a second treatment, the experimental group is the group with the "different" treatment. The control is the "usual" treatment; the experimental group gets the "new" treatment. Of course, things get complicated with more complicated "experiments."