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Keywords to Use in Identifying Empirical Research

These are some keywords that you can use in literature searches to find empirical research:

Research

Empirical

Quantitative

Qualitative

Case study

Open-ended

Questionnaire

Survey

Evaluation

Instrument

Reliability

Validity

Cluster analysis

Data

Findings

Interview

Protocol

Feasibility

Pilot Project

Reproducibility

Generalizabity

Results

Method, methods, methodology

Research design

Double-blind

Randomized, random, randomization

Selection criteria

Allocation, allocated

Sample, sampling

Population

Study

Cross section

Sensitivity

Specificity

Predictive

Longitudinal

Prospective

Follow-up

Cohort

Analytic

Case control

Retrospective

ANOVA

MANOVA

Regression

 

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