In a first peer-review phase, the journal evaluates the research question's importance and the proposed experimental methods' rigor and soundness.
Recently, a method has been championed that combines some of the computational simplicity of the DerSimonian and Laird method, with the rigor and accuracy of likelihood based approaches.
In general, the methodological quality of empirical papers on IC in healthcare was poor, largely for two reasons: inadequate description of the methods and limited rigor and sophistication of the methods.
For Russell, who keenly felt the revolutionary advances of physics and who wanted mathematics and philosophy to assume the method and rigor of sciences, Wittgenstein was the embodiment of his dreams; in Wittgenstein Russell found a philosopher who was trained, as he himself was not, in physics, and adept, as he was not, in the physical world of machines.
Teaching from the case studies of great negotiators places the contextual complexity of negotiation alongside its method and rigor.
For Alva Noë of the University of California, Berkeley, the problem is much simpler: "While there is every reason to think that philosophical method and rigor, when applied to life's problems, can lead to growth, emancipation, improvement, et cetera, philosophy is very, very hard.
Economists may be wrong as often as right, but at least they have some method and rigor.
While actual content varied little, the major variation was found in the method and rigor of guideline development as well as the comprehensiveness [ 5- 8].
These included determining the breadth of evidence needed (quantitative or qualitative or both) and balancing this need with the feasibility or resources available to perform the review, anticipating the end-users of findings, and to what extent the method provides strategies for rigor and transparency.
