INTELLECTUAL opinion during the 20th century, driven by composers themselves, placed a premium on complexity and methodological rigor in contemporary music.
Medicine has been in the vanguard in requiring methodological rigor in the reporting of science and should again push the envelope by developing a hypothesis registry.
Low and MacMillan (1988) claimed for more methodological rigor in entrepreneurship research and Chandler and Lyon (2001) showed that the discipline evolved from case studies based to growingly using sophisticated statistical techniques.
However, the research-practice gap regarding methodological rigor in this population has not yet been addressed.
This requires methodological rigor in order to minimize bias and random error.
"Comprehensiveness" is not in itself an exclusive goal and must be accompanied by methodological rigor in study design, model building, data collection and other aspects.
To ensure methodological rigor in the review process, all quasi-experimental and experimental studies were appraised for quality in accordance with the United Kingdom's National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines [ 65].
This failure to increase the degree of methodological rigor in published research is of concern because significant resources are used conducting studies of poor methodological quality and such research may produce scientifically invalid conclusions that influence future research and policy.
It is noteworthy that there was a low level of methodological rigor in most of the studies included in this review, as outcome measures were ambiguous and only limited operational details were reported.
Clinical and epidemiologic research over the past two decades has witnessed a remarkable movement toward improved transparency, reproducibility, and methodological rigor, as reflected in the CONSORT [ 6, 71], STROBE [ 7], and recently STARDdem [ 37] guidelines.
Significant variations in the methodological rigor for the studies included in this review were noted in addition to nebulousness between nursing education research and evaluation.
