16130 IUPAC Gold Book - target population 10.1351/goldbook.16130 16130 current 1 Collection of individuals, items, measurements, etc. about which inferences are required: The term is sometimes used to indicate the population from which a sample is drawn and sometimes to denote any reference population about which inferences are needed. Group of persons for whom an intervention is planned. PAC, 2007, 79, 1153. 'Glossary of terms used in toxicology, 2nd edition (IUPAC Recommendations 2007)' on page 1320 (https://doi.org/10.1351/pac200779071153) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/16130/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/16130/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/16130/plain Citation: 'target population' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.16130 The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using. 2026-08-05T21:42:53+00:00