empirical test
collocation in Englishmeaningsofempiricalandtest
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empirical
adjective
uk/ɪmˈpɪr.ɪ.kəl/us/emˈpɪr.ɪ.kəl/
based on what is experienced or seen rather than ...
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test
noun[C]
uk/test/us/test/
a way of discovering, by questions or practical activities, what someone knows, or what someone or something can do or ...
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(Definition ofempiricalandtestfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Note that a sufficient reason does not exclude the possibility of alternative explanations (this can be decided byempiricaltest; see below).
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The evolutionary framework in this article is not itself designed to be a single theory that can be subject toempiricaltest, or modeled formally.
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The present investigation offers anempiricaltestthat provides a quantifiable comparison between the acquisition of homonyms and nonsense words.
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This article looks at the social status of elderly women in anempiricaltestof the double jeopardy hypothesis.
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Probability weighting in choice under risk: anempiricaltest.
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Anempiricaltestof using counts of individuals captured as indices of population size.
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These hypotheses can be, and are being, subjected toempiricaltest, thus advancing the scientific foundations of the field.
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Here the outline will only be sketched in order to concentrate on theempiricaltest.
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Yet despite its descriptiveness and its scientific importance, the proposition entails no predictive claims at all, nor is it subject toempiricaltest.
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Section 4 presents anempiricaltestof the model using panel data at state level from 1988 to 1995.
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In turn, this reliance on subjective classification rules limited the extent to which trajectory theories could be subject toempiricaltest.
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Putting these assumptions toempiricaltestcan actually raise doubts which are of theoretical interest within linguistics.
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On the basis of an elaborated process model, one could formulate specific predictions for anempiricaltestof the common-cause hypothesis.
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A thoroughempiricaltestof (28) will necessarily turn to a careful analysis of word boundaries.
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But it, too, remains a model whose purpose is to be put toempiricaltest.
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The fourth section concludes with an initialempiricaltestof these three hypotheses.
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These alternative predictions potentially present an interestingempiricaltestof the models.
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Anempiricaltestof bootstrapping as a method for assessing confidence in phylogenetic analysis.
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Such anempiricaltestof the two accounts awaits future research.
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