In terms of methodology the stress is on "positive economics" that is, empirically based studies using statistics to prove theory.

There have been some continued empirically based arguments for a return to the diagnosis of melancholia.

A central concept in science and the scientific method is that it must be empirically based on the evidence of the senses.

The combined three forms of reasoning serve as a primary conceptual foundation for the empirically based scientific method today.

The experimental research just described has given substance, in several respects, to some older or less empirically based ideas about psychosis and creativity.

The only empirically based evidence is that Clovis people hunted large game.

Within the psychotherapeutic community there has been some discussion of empirically based psychotherapy, e.g.

A more fundamental development is the shift from normative to empirically based approaches.

Research conducted under this tradition is empirically based but can be both quantitative or qualitative.

Based on several project reports, higher education institutions have been provided with empirically based evidence for planning their curricula, strategies and general orientations.