Much of this work sees method as detailed and context specific problem-solving procedures, and methodological analyses to be at the same time descriptive, critical and advisory (see Nickles 1987 for an exposition of this view).
We drew on Normalization Process Theory, or NPT [ 35, 36] to provide a theoretical lens for our empirical and methodological analyses.
Third, CV-GPS will provide core support for methodological analyses (novel omics platforms) and a biorepository (real or virtual) for biological specimens from existing or future population study participants.
These items were selected from the item banks of the EORTC Computerised Adaptive Testing Project [ 13, 14] and will be used in sensitivity analysis and subsequent methodological analyses only.
Recent methodological analyses indicate that inadequate reporting and design are associated with biased estimates of treatment effects.
We should continue to carry out micro-scale or short-term studies of adaptation or function in particular time-space settings, meso-scale studies of culture process, purely historical studies that focus on sequence and dating for their own sake, broad syntheses, methodological analyses, among others.
Two different methodological analyses can be used (Delfino et al. [43]): aggregate or disaggregate.
Still, methodological analyses have concluded that "although the opt-in Internet sample we analyze does have some bias, the bias is probably not so great as to vitiate the gains of inexpensive, large and targeted samples that the Internet methodology makes possible" (Hill et al. 2007).
However methodological analyses reconstructed different evolutionary histories for Microbotryum-Caryophyllaceae association depending on which approach was chosen.
Four papers were excluded as they were only subgroup or methodological analyses of previously published papers [ 26- 29].
