'empirical practices' is a correct and usable phrase in written English and can be used to describe a method of inquiry that relies on observation and experimentation
For example: The research team employed empirical practices to garner the most accurate data possible for their study.
Industrial manufacturing of bread is made of empirical practices without precise knowledge of mechanisms that govern heat and mass transfer during the processes.
The likelihood of local transport authorities engaging more in cooperation with private mobility providers might lead to renegotiating rules, regulations and access in the public transport arena, thus retroacting on "knowledge and discourses, their sedimentation in material landscapes, institutions and laws to governmentalities, subject formations and empirical practices" [18, p. 619].
Such empirical practices could create a vicious cycle of early and aggressive broad-spectrum antibiotic therapy that may in turn lead to overuse of antibiotics and an increase in antimicrobial resistance.
In this paper, an asymptotic control with driftless constraints is proposed for wheeled mobile robots based on empirical practice.
The work provides a theoretical justification of the commonly used empirical practice of assuming that the energy response of a random system is lognormal.
These applied econometric methods have transformed empirical practice not solely within economics but also in other disciplines such as political science and sociology.
The Special Issue aims to disseminate innovative research and empirical practice on the problem/question-centered learning approach, including learning by problem solving and/or generation, to promoting students' development of knowledge and skills.
Alternative analytical or deliberative approaches will face similar challenges, and any proper evaluation must involve comparison of the approaches in empirical practice, not simply against diverse sets of normative principles.
An important aspect is the design of a study program to introduce students to the core concepts and principles of inter- and transdisciplinary research and to prepare them for the empirical practice.
To address our concerns about the magnitude of some of the estimates, and because we think it represents good empirical practice more generally, we turn now to an analysis of the sensitivity of our estimates to lingering selection on unobserved variables not accounted for by our choice of comparison group and our conditioning variables.
It can also be viewed as part of "mashuping" of indicators a term coined by Ravallion (2012 2 and defined as a process of creating composite indicators in which the data producer is only constrained by the availability of data in choosing what variables to include and by their weights, but not by theory or empirical practice.
