The phrase "as relative group" is not correct in standard written English.
It may be intended to describe a group that is defined in relation to something else, but it lacks clarity and proper grammatical structure.
Example: "The researchers analyzed the data as a relative group to understand the differences in behavior."
Alternatives: "as a comparative group" or "as a related group".
For easier interpretation of the results, means and standard deviations of all parameters for each group as well as relative differences between groups were calculated.
We expressed the luminescence data as relative luciferase activity per group of 24 surviving flies.
Outgrowth areas of IGF2BP3 siRNA-treated group were expressed as relative units to the scrambled siRNA-treated group, which was set to 100%.
Plasma total phospholipid fatty acids were expressed as the individual fractions of fatty acids and fatty acid groups as relative values (% of total fatty acids).
The cell viability rate of the treated cells was calculated as relative values to the control group.
It was decided that it would be unethical to withhold treatment to patients with active disease requiring anti-TNFα, and including patients receiving other disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs would not be suitable, as relative to the anti-TNFα group, these patients would have much lower levels of baseline inflammation.
The estimates are expressed as relative percent change from the omitted group; negative percents represent lower costs compared to the omitted group.
Experimental groups in bar graph representations are normalized to control groups and displayed as relative activation.
The proliferation rate was expressed as relative values standardize to the control group.
The results were normalized to the mRNA level of housekeeping gene glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH, Hs99999905, Applied Biosystems, Switzerland) and expressed as relative values compared to the control group.
