Therefore the choice of tool depends on the study question.
The design of a scientific study should be appropriate to answer the study question but independent of the theory which generated the study question.
Is the answer to the study question buried somewhere in the Discussion?
In order to address the study question we retrieved nationwide claims data for the period from 2005 to 2008.
Other checklists were tested (e.g., Philips et al. [12]) but, for the study question here, the PQAQ was considered as the most appropriate checklist for quality assessment.
Four hundred and eighty-four articles were excluded following review of the article title because of irrelevance to the study question.
These steps include developing the study question(s), developing the study plan, implementing the study plan, reporting the results and submitting the manuscript(s) for publication.
Is the study question clear?
The choice between the parametric (eqn 3) and the semi-parametric (eqn 4) survival models depends on the study question.
The constraints modeled at the bite point had the greatest effect on bite force output, but the most appropriate constraint may depend on the study question.
AA and GP formulated the study question.
