The odds are lower for exploratory studies that make no prior predictions, leaving the findings more open to chance.
Researchers run small, exploratory studies comparing handfuls of people or animals in hundreds or thousands of ways.
In these new, highly exploratory studies, the subjects may sometimes be perfectly healthy volunteers -- as in the anxiety-drug experiment.
At the University of Cincinnati, undecided students can enroll in an exploratory studies program.
We've seen that small studies can only ever detect large effects and that low power increases the likelihood of spurious or chance findings, especially in exploratory studies.
In order to combat pediatric obesity, exploratory studies are necessary to create effective interventions.
Using semistructured interviews is appropriate for collecting rich contextual information and for exploratory studies.
These are certainly strong arguments against using the telephone directory beyond merely exploratory studies.
Subsequent studies can then build on the important foundational work of exploratory studies.
To answer this question, we set up three exploratory studies and analyse their results.
More exploratory studies are required to investigate the relationship between central autonomic regulation and cerebral vasoconstrictions.
