However, this was a hypothetical research study involving simple, low-risk procedures and may therefore not be representative of actual research studies.
The major disadvantage of Snowdon's study is that it was discussing a hypothetical study design [ 15].
Three of the four studies were designed to evaluate retrospective claims data, whereas the fourth study was a hypothetical modeling system.
In addition, the DCE component of this study was a hypothetical exercise designed to assess the relative importance of treatment attributes and levels.
The study area was a hypothetical village in the municipality of Tianjin in China, which has experienced severe water shortages and poor sanitation.
12 The adjusted effect size is obtained by extrapolating the regression line to predict the effect size that would be seen in a hypothetical study of infinite size that is, which has an effect size with zero associated standard error.
The second example is a hypothetical clinical study with two stages.
Most obviously this is a hypothetical modelling study and the outcomes are not based on randomised controlled clinical trial data (which would be ethically impossible to acquire).
The proposed method is then applied to a hypothetical study case.
