This is a free preview. For full access
Statistics in Practice
Why Control Groups Improve Experiment Results
Description
Control groups help experiments produce more reliable results. They reduce bias and make it easier to measure the dependent variable. In an experiment, controls have the same features as the treatment groups but are not affected by the independent variable.
Researchers sort data into control and ...
Show More
Transcript
实验中的对照是指保持恒定且不受自变量影响的要素。对照对于无偏且准确地测量因变量对处理的响应至关重要。
例如,到医院就诊的患者若出现高烧、呼吸困难、咳嗽、流鼻涕和严重全身疼痛等症状,可能被怀疑感染了新冠病毒。但也 有可能是其他呼吸道感染引发了相同的症状。因此,医生会建议进行新冠病毒检测。
采集患者的鼻拭子样本,并进行 COVID检测。此外,还保留一份不含COVID病毒RNA的对照样本。此类对照也称为阴性对照,有助于防止患者样本出现假阳性结果。
阳性对照是实验中另一种常用的对照类型。与阴性对照不同,阳性对照含有真实的样本——病毒RNA。这有助于确认待测样本中病毒RNA的存在,并验证检测方法的正确性和准确性。
Show More
More videos by Standards
Show More