Pseudoprospective

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Describing an analysis, design etc that approximates a prospective one by using already-available data not-comparable

    "Handbook of Psychology, Vol. II: Research Methods in Psychology; Irving B. Weiner editor-in-chief Pseudoprospective designs attempt to model true prospective designs in structure, but actually are retrospective."

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"Handbook of Psychology, Vol. II: Research Methods in Psychology; Irving B. Weiner editor-in-chief Pseudoprospective designs attempt to model true prospective designs in structure, but actually are retrospective."

Etymology

From pseudo- + prospective.

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