Sentence examples for methodological convenience from inspiring English sources

The choice to use the county boundaries to define beneficiaries reflects a compromise decision based on methodological convenience.

The groups should be understood as "ideal-types", which are "a rational construction used to make sense of and explain an irrational reality" (Daynes & Lee, 2008, p. 94) and are used as a methodological convenience (Weber, 1978).

So is representationalism only methodological, a mere convenience?

The few existing candidate gene studies in PTSD have been limited by methodological problems including convenience samples, focus on chronic rather than lifetime PTSD cases, inadequate power, poorly matched controls and the failure to assay all common variation in genes examined.

The 14 included studies were generally of average to high quality, with the main methodological weaknesses being use of convenience samples (that is, non-consecutive or selected samples), failure to fully demonstrate the equivalence of the pregnant and not pregnant groups on prognostic indicators before treatment although partial evidence was provided in most included studies), and low power.

Using a qualitative methodological approach 3 focus groups with a convenience sample of 17 GPs were conducted.

Several studies have described GPs' CAM views [ 14] and practices [ 15]; however, most of them have been hampered by methodological problems such as small sample size, convenience sampling, or unsatisfactory response rates [ 16].

From a methodological standpoint, the results presented here demonstrate the convenience of the application of techniques developed for metagenomic analysis to conventional genomics.

Although there have been significant advancements in community violence research in the past decade, many methodological shortcomings pervade (e.g., psychometrically unsupported instruments, convenience samples, retrospective reports).

31 Compared with snowball sampling and other convenience sampling methods, RDS is a methodological advance for enrolling hidden subgroups through social networking.

For convenience, the discussion in this section will give a summary of methodological issues identified in the literature rather than a profile of the studies based on particular methods and approaches.