reference group in English

noun
1
a social group that a person takes as a standard in forming attitudes and behavior.
To highlight the two extremes of the scale, the mid-category was chosen as the reference group in the logistic regression.

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1. Soil units of the Arenosol reference group are linked with Cryosols (Gelic Arenosols), Solonchaks (Hyposalic Arenosols), Gleysols (Gleyic Arenosols), Andosols (Tephric Arenosols), Podzols (Albic or Hyperalbic Arenosols),Plinthosols ( Plinthic Arenosols),Ferralsols ( Hypoferralic Arenosols),

2. In Cladistics or phylogenetics, an outgroup is a more distantly related group of organisms that serves as a reference group when determining the evolutionary relationships of the ingroup, the set of organisms under study, and is distinct from sociological outgroups.The outgroup is used as a point of comparison for the ingroup and specifically allows for the phylogeny to be rooted.