Sentence examples for trials control for from inspiring English sources

By randomly assigning research subjects into an intervention group (who take a particular pill or eat a particular diet) or a placebo group, these trials "control" for all other possible variables, both known and unknown, that might effect the outcome: the relative health or wealth of the subjects, for instance.

The oddball trials control for the low frequency of the No-Go trials and thus the oddball attentional capture effect (Rubia et al., 2005; Schmitz et al., 2006; Lamar et al., 2009).

Several well-designed randomised controlled trials, controlling for exercise volume, report no effects of exercise intensity on plasma lipoproteins or on other cardiovascular risk factors.

One way to decrease this unavoidable confound is to intermix trials controlling for circumference and surface.

The event-related analyses contrasted the activations (sum of squares ratio) related to successful No-Go trials compared to successful oddball trials, controlling for the attentional oddball effect due to the low frequency occurrence of No-Go trials.

The absolute and relative stability of alexithymia were evaluated in a pre-post design as part of a randomised controlled trial, controlling for several co-variates.

Women in the RCT had significantly greater improvement in emotional function than those treated off-trial, controlling for baseline; they also had greater reductions in therapy side effects and fatigue at 24 months than women off-trial, controlling for covariates.

In a randomized control trial controlling for initial blood lead level, Mexican children who were administered iron (or iron plus zinc) did not have lower blood lead concentrations than the placebo group.

It is also necessary when designing antipsychotic comparator trials which control for dosage.

The position of the familiar pictures was counterbalanced across trials to control for side preference.

Dragonfly larvae were starved for three days between successive trials to control for the different hunger levels among them.