The three-year graduation rate for the 2007 cohort was 55 percent, compared with 24 percent for a demographically comparable group.
In one classic study, sociologists at the University of Washington compared students who were part of the "Jesus people" movement with a comparable group of professed atheists and found that atheists were no more likely to cheat on tests than were Christians and no less likely to volunteer at a hospital for the mentally disabled.
In a case-control study, researchers compare factors found among people with a certain disease to factors among a comparable group of people without that disease.
Barristers are the comparable group in England.
A comparable group of tombs has been found at Horoztepe near Tokat.
Monty Python, as all right-thinking people know by now, is a troupe of five British writer-actors and one American writer-animator who would be as funny as any comparable group in the world if there were a comparable group in the world.
A control group of comparable group practices also was assembled, and difference-in-differences methodology was applied to estimate program effects.
Can anybody think of another time in history when a comparable group of young people was asked to be at once so brave, fierce and relentless, while also being so sympathetic, creative and forbearing?
The diet component of the Women's Health Initiative compared some 20,000 women advised to cut dietary fat and increase their intake of produce to a comparable group given the federal dietary guidelines.
Researchers in San Diego, for example, recently reported that those diabetics who were more satisfied with their friendships were better able to control the disease than were a comparable group of diabetics who reported being dissatisfied with their friendships.
The results show that a lower share of adopted men and women has a long post-secondary education than do a comparable group of Swedish born men and women.
