empirical research

"It was a wonderful example of legal empirical research being too good for the court."

In general, this view has not been supported by empirical research.

They have presented little new empirical research to support their claims.

It is not based, in any strict sense, on empirical research.

A large body of empirical research has confirmed the same general pattern in many different countries.

This theory cannot be fully supported though, because current studies have not given empirical research.

The report states that it is based on the latest theoretical and empirical research.

Other researchers doing empirical research have found results compatible with the theory.

Empirical research that attempts to answer these questions may follow a number of patterns.

There is no empirical research that we can accept as reliable.