retrospective nature
collocation in Englishmeaningsofretrospectiveandnature
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retrospective
adjective
uk/ˌret.rəˈspek.tɪv/us/ˌret.rəˈspek.tɪv/
relating to or thinking about ...
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nature
noun
uk/ˈneɪ.tʃər/us/ˈneɪ.tʃɚ/
all the animals, plants, rocks, etc. in the world and all the features, forces, and processes that happen or exist independently of people, such as the weather, the sea, mountains, the production of young animals or plants, ...
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The most important limitations of this study are related to theretrospectivenatureof the methodology.
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The small-scaleretrospectivenatureof the study prohibited the collation of before and after measures of knowledge or practice.
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Given theretrospectivenatureof this data, no reliability measures are available.
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Due to theretrospectivenatureof the study, the precise date was entered for only 43 episodes.
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Theretrospectivenatureof the study methodology necessitated a focus on body weight in the definition of relapse.
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The major weakness of this study is theretrospectivenatureof the data.
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Another limitation is theretrospectivenatureof the responses, introducing the possibility of recall bias.
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Yet the stronglyretrospectivenatureof this volume, its insistence that there are lessons to be learned from historical investigation, is its greatest asset.
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Theretrospectivenatureof data collection might have introduced recall bias.
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The cross-sectional method is particularly susceptible to recall bias due to theretrospectivenatureof the study design.
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Because of theretrospectivenatureof this research, results must be carefully interpreted and eventually replicated.
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The interpretation and generalizability of this study are limited by its small sample size andretrospectivenature.
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Results from human studies are variable and this is likely due to theretrospectivenatureof most studies to date.
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Due to theretrospectivenatureof the study, the data collected were not complete for every single case.
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In view of theretrospectivenatureof the assessment of chest pain, we could not be certain that reporting of chest pain was secondary to the depression.
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Due to theretrospectivenatureof this study, some codes may have been missed due to extraction difficulties or problems with the systems at the time of the study.
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Limitations that should be noted include the self-report,retrospectivenatureof the data and the fact that interviewers were aware of the case status of the participants.
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A drawback to this study, as in many costing studies, was theretrospectivenatureof data collection, so we had no control over quality of routinely collected data.
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I am deeply worried by theretrospectivenatureof this proposed legislation.
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