The odds are lower for exploratory studies that make no prior predictions, leaving the findings more open to chance.
In our analysis, we show that for exploratory studies with an average 20% power, together with average one in four pre-study odds that the effect being sought is actually true, the likelihood that any claimed effect (based on passing a conventional level of statistical significance) actually is true is only 50%.
Using semistructured interviews is appropriate for collecting rich contextual information and for exploratory studies.
However, the multilayered thick Deccan Traps of Late Cretaceous overlie the Mesozoic targets, thereby imposing inherent problems in imaging sedimentary layers below the traps for exploratory studies.
The process thus becomes a preferred option over the expensive techniques such as MBE, MOCVD etc to synthesize materials for exploratory studies.
This approach does not require prior knowledge on the dissolution mechanism and is therefore particularly suited for exploratory studies gaining process understanding during early phase development.
The Bayesian sample size proposed by (Whitehead et al., 2008 [27]) for exploratory studies on efficacy justifies the acceptable minimum sample size by a "conclusiveness" condition.
Inductive content analysis technique is highly recommended for exploratory studies (Andersson et al. 2015; Sandström et al. 2015), providing techniques for inferences from documents about sources of study followed by a structured questionnaire administered by researchers (Schamber 2000).
Reducing the data sets to a more manageable size, while initially attractive, comes with the risk of losing significant information within the data, particularly for exploratory studies in which the phenomena of interest may not be captured by statistical methods.
