It can help in balancing the books to have income neatly aligned by time and date order on an app rather than the alternative of retrospectively going through dog-eared paying-in books to reconcile who paid what, when and how it impacted the company's cashflow and bank balance.
In addition, the number of challenging and specific a priori hypotheses was limited, which increases the risk of bias as it is tempting to reflect on alternative explanations retrospectively [ 76- 78].
An alternative option of retrospectively deducting points from teams is also expected to be discussed.
This study sought to explain why patients develop severe pressure ulcers, by reconstructing events retrospectively, and then discriminating between alternative explanations for their development.
Without specific hypotheses there is a risk of bias, because retrospectively it is tempting to generate alternative explanations for low correlations instead of concluding that the questionnaire may not be valid.
The alternative would have been to retrospectively lower the results of pupils taking exams in January.
Second, the cut-off points for LN density were arbitrarily determined retrospectively, and they have not been validated sufficiently in alternative data sets [ 8].
Despite the fact that conclusive evidence on bivalirudin is still quite limited, the few studies conducted, albeit retrospectively with small sample sizes, suggest that bivalirudin is a superior alternative to heparin [ 46].
Retrospectively, of course, that's bunkum rushed out in 1990 as a technologically and visually zippier alternative to the Game Boy, the Game Gear was a clunking goon of a rival.
To further define the role of kidney scintigraphy, we retrospectively studied the results of gallium-67 scans performed in patients with AIN or an alternative diagnosis.
