The goals of the present article are to summarize what is known about QOL in women treated for gynecologic malignancies, compare QOL in women with gynecologic versus other malignancies, attempt to draw tentative conclusions about variables affecting quality of life and risk factors for maladjustment, and suggest directions for future research.
Tentative a priori constructs or variables guide the investigation, but no relationships between such constructs or variables are assumed so far: "Thus, investigators should formulate a research problem and possibly specify some potentially important variables, with some reference to extant literature.
On the basis of the information available to the authors, tentative statistical models for these variables are suggested and adopted in a simulation study to obtain peak annual velocities at the locations of two meteorological stations where observational data is available.
A causal link cannot be documented because of complex interactions of several variables, and our tentative conclusion needs to be supported by studies implementing stronger research designs with better controls for alternative explanations.
Yet we conceptualized a tentative model, a preliminary core variable theory, of how medical students want their education in medical ethics.
A continuum is assumed from simple EBs (considering knowledge as certain and absolute) to sophisticated EBs (considering knowledge as variable, constructed, and tentative) [ 23].
In "no theory first", there is a broad and tentative research question with some preliminary variables at the outset.
Procalcitonin (PCT) is a known biochemical reference marker of sepsis diagnosis and severity [ 13, 50, 51], and sepsis score is a tentative summation of clinical and biochemical variables (including PCT) [ 18].
The basic idea of these algorithms is for agents to repeatedly improve their tentative and flawed sets of assignments for variables simultaneously while communicating such tentative sets with each other until finding a solution to an instance of the distributed constraint satisfaction problem (DisCSP).
First, we developed a conceptual framework and posited tentative hypotheses for the demographic and health history variables.
