In fact patients and caregivers were not told in advance they would be given a phone interview after one month and this was a methodological choice which distinguishes our study from most other studies and could constitute one of its strengths.
As Carol Kellerman, president of the Citizens Budget Commission, a nonpartisan group that monitors city spending, put it: "They made a lot of methodological choices, the validity of which are subject to debate".
During analysis, different levels of data reliability and resolution have been identified, which inform methodological choices when undertaking reconstructions of the villa.
As mentioned by Beccari (2016), some sensitivity analyses have found significant impact of methodological choices on the resulting index values, which have implications for the broader use of these indices by policymakers.
Our aim is to identify which conclusions concerning the status of the three BSAP segments are robust to the selection of indicators and assessment methodologies, and where the methodological choices are critical for the outcome of the assessment.
We used instead Morse's criterion of data saturation as 'adequacy' of the data, which can be obtained through specific methodological choices.
The methodological choices of the studies were analysed using an analytical grid which contains the main methodological items of COI studies.
That would also explain why Mr. Romney's bounce was more modest in the Rasmussen Reports polls, as they weight their samples by party identification (a poor methodological choice, in my view), which may dampen the enthusiasm effect.
The paper also aims to propose an alternative ranking which is more dependant on the framework than on the methodological choices.
A scenario sensitivity analysis method was applied in this study, which involves calculating different scenarios, to analyse the influences of input parameters (soil carbon accumulation) or methodological choices (allocation approach) on either the LCIA output results or rankings [ 71].
