Meanings of normative sample in English

A separate, non-medical group completed the POMS as a normative sample.

QoL profiles were highly deteriorated in our sample with respect to the Italian normative sample.

Parental mental health was significantly lower compared with the normative sample, but physical health was not different.

For each lymphoma survivor, two age-matched controls (n = 492) were drawn from a normative sample with BSFI scores.

The BSI item responses of 288 persons with spinal cord injury (SCI) were compared to a non-patient normative sample of 719 persons.

The normative sample consists of 309 healthy participants aged between 20 and 70, with an educational level ranging from 4 to 23 years of formal.

As expected, these overestimates were most salient at the lowest levels of education, given the under-representation of poorly educated subjects in the original normative samples.