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study, n the pursuance of education; analysis. study cast, n See cast, diagnostic. study, graduate, n the baccalaureate educational efforts pursued for credit toward an advanced degree in institutions of higher learning. study model, n See cast, diagnostic. study, postgraduate, n postdoctoral educational endeavors that may or may not earn credits for advanced degrees. study, time, n the technique of random sampling used for analysis of the time spent for rendering each phase of each of the various professional services performed by the dental professional. study a scholarly examination. Specific types of study are also detailed under blind, case-control, cohort, cross-sectional. analytical study one in which a phenomenon is described and an attempt made to analyze the effects of variables on the phenomenon. descriptive study one in which a phenomenon is described but no attempt is made to analyze the effects of variables on the phenomenon. follow-up study one carried out to find out whether there has been change in the situation since the initial study. longitudinal study one carried out over a period of time so that chronological time has an opportunity to exert an effect as a variable. observational study see descriptive study (above). prospective study one in which the data to be studied are yet to be generated, the events having not yet occurred. retrospective study one based on examination of existing data, on events that have already occurred. simulation study one in which the real circumstances are simulated, either in fact, or by means of a set of mathematical formulae each of which expresses the probability of each outcome in a series of consequential events that mirror the possible pathways in a real-life situation. |
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| Scientists followed roughly 6,600 men and women in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey Epidemiologic Follow-up Study for nine years. SANTA CLARITA -- Ending the subsidy for residents outside Santa Clarita who enroll in city parks programs had little effect in its first test, according to a follow-up study set for review next week. On May 11, Merck announced that an APPROVe follow-up study of the fourth year--after patients stopped taking Vioxx--did not show a statistically significant difference in risk between those who had been taking Vioxx and those who had been taking a placebo. |
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