The phrase "a level of rigour" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the degree of strictness, precision, or thoroughness applied to a process, analysis, or methodology.
Example: "In academic research, it is essential to maintain a level of rigour to ensure the validity of the findings."
Alternatives: "a degree of strictness" or "a standard of thoroughness."
There are a lot of illogical moves required, and a level of scientific rigour needed to perform it.
Moreover, the software works out how many trials are likely to be needed to test a particular drug to an appropriate level of rigour, and what the optimum size of trials should be.
These issues have been addressed through processes to strengthen reporting requirements from the service provider, including introducing a higher level of rigour around compliance monitoring of the immigration detention health services contract".
An unpublished paper presented to the annual conference of the American Accounting Association in August by Richard Cazier of Texas Christian University and John McInnis of the University of Texas at Austin brings a new level of rigour to the debate.Messrs Cazier and McInnis studied 192 CEOs who had been brought in from outside between 1993 and 2005.
In education it says pupils and parents are benefiting from "a renewed level of rigour and challenge at every stage".
In 1997 Greg Rouse and Kristian Fauchald attempted a "first heuristic step in terms of bringing polychaete systematics to an acceptable level of rigour", based on anatomical structures, and divided polychaetes into: Scolecida, less than 1,000 burrowing species that look rather like earthworms.
The report concluded: "We have concerns regarding the adequacy of the groundwater and noise assessments and do not believe that these are sufficiently robust to allow the impact to be assessed with an appropriate level of rigour".
The search was limited to published papers to ensure a level of methodological adequacy and rigour amongst those included and to avoid the inevitable problems with securing access to a full set of unpublished studies and the bias that this would introduce [ 72].
To address these shortcomings, we conducted a randomised controlled trial of the video decision support tool among a diverse group of older patients to study the video with a higher level of rigour.
"This benefit assessment programme, which you are introducing to a very large number of people, should have the same level of rigour applied [as that of cancer screening in the NHS] to see whether we want it or not.
