The phrase "methodological rationale" is correct and usable in written English.
For example, "The methodological rationale for this research was to analyze the long-term effects of policy decisions."
Our approach design is based on a modified Bushee (1998) methodological rationale introducing both the recession impact in the form of intercept variables and a series of control variables to ensure robustness.
This volume provides a full statement of the methodological rationale of the research; an analysis of the origins of the cahiers de dolances in the Convocation of 1789; studies of their authenticity as a reflection of public opinion at the outbreak of the Revolution; and a detailed statement of the sources of coded cahiers.
Our application to the Pirkanmaa Hospital District IRB contained a specific, six-point ethical analysis focusing on the methodological rationale for use of placebo surgery, risk-benefit assessment and informed consent as outlined by Miller (box 1).
Based on the results of these studies we decided that there was a sound philosophical and methodological rationale for the use of the item impact approach to develop a short form of the CPQ11 14.
Objectives: We sought to evaluate the rationale, methodological quality, and reporting of cRCTs in critical care medicine (CCM).
Connelly and Yoder [ 15] identify a number of common failings in qualitative proposals such as inadequate explanation of methodological techniques, lack of rationale for the use of qualitative methodology, failure to outline the significance of the proposed qualitative study, and underestimation of the costs of undertaking qualitative research.
The objective of this paper is to present the rationale and methodological design of this study.
The paper provides a review of the general area of systems evaluation with the motivation and rationale for methodological approaches underlying usability engineering and cognitive task analysis as applied to health information systems.
The rationale and methodological details of stepwise PCO are detailed elsewhere [ 48].
The quality appraisal instrument devised by Philips et al. [ 24] include dimensions of methodological quality corresponding to rationales for structure, structural assumptions, disease states/pathways, cycle length, and internal consistency.
The primary rationale for poor methodological quality in reliability studies was due to insufficient participant numbers.
