The phrase "analytical abstraction" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used in contexts related to philosophy, cognitive science, or data analysis, where one discusses the process of simplifying complex concepts or data into more manageable forms.
Example: "The research paper focused on the analytical abstraction of social behaviors to better understand underlying patterns."
Alternatives: "conceptual simplification" or "cognitive abstraction."
Thematic synthesis aims to achieve analytical abstraction at a higher level, by rigorously examining overlap and elements in common among studies.
We combined eligible studies of experiences in treatment decision making from patients' and carers' perspectives in a deliberate attempt to achieve the higher level analytical abstraction that is aimed for in thematic synthesis.
While themes a, b, c and d were 'in vivo' codes suggested by respondents' own language, theme e, practice organisation, was of a higher analytical abstraction, constructed from respondents' descriptions of the way their practices were organised.
Two ways to account for this are analytical abstractions and/or the introduction of intermediate-step artificial species in the simulation, as described in modification M4.
As with all case studies, the qualitative data on which the findings of this study are based did not permit statistical generalization but instead required theorizing efforts via theoretical abstraction to achieve analytical generalization (Yin 2014).
"The repetition of the same things over and over again really gave her time to really strengthen that analytical sense between abstraction and realism," Mr. Guerin said.
Mr. Crawford often used photographs as a basis for his Precisionist compositions -- cool, analytical streetscapes and abstractions derived from manmade structures.
Otherwise, the analysis was based on an adapted (combined inductive/deductive) framework analysis approach (81) that involved a series of analytical steps of increasing abstraction from data to findings and theories (Table 2).
In her rendering of the seaside landscape with a photographer's analytical eye for the abstractions of forms and textures, as well as in her sense of sophisticated reason at odds with itself, Varda captures, cinematically, the philosophical currents of postwar Paris.
At the lower abstraction level, the analytical and continuous methods are used to describe the behaviour of the introduced activities.
Performance can be evaluated by several metrics and at several levels of abstraction ranging from analytical evaluation, via simulation, experiments in an emulated environment, up to full-scale live experiments.
