methodology

Just apply a range of criteria and methodologies, and you’ll come up with, say, the 10 most-friendly, healthy or affordable spots to retire.

The measure lags behind other readings, but is closely watched because of its methodology, which controls for factors other data sources don’t, like size and type of home.

While a paper’s methodology could be more or less rigorous, and data could be tortured into fitting preconceived conclusions, the falsification of an entire study was extraordinary.

That figure uses a different methodology intended to replicate the government’s monthly jobs report more closely.

Those lessons would serve him later as he developed and refined his intervention methodologies.