cross-sectional nature

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meanings of nature

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nature
noun
uk /ˈneɪ.tʃər/ us /ˈneɪ.tʃɚ/
all the animals, plants, rocks, etc. in the world and all the features, forces, and processes that happen or exist independently of people, such as the weather, the sea, mountains, the production of young animals or plants, ...
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First, the cross-sectionalnature of the design does not permit an evaluation of the direction of causality.
The cross-sectionalnature of the study and the reliance on retrospective data raise the possibility of recall errors.
Finally, the cross-sectionalnature of this study precludes any inferences about causes of substance use as opposed to its effects.
Finally, data from this study preclude firm conclusions about causality given their cross-sectionalnature.
Another limitation relates to the cross-sectionalnature of the data.
Among the limitations that qualify the conclusiveness of our findings, the first lies in their cross-sectionalnature.
Second, the cross-sectionalnature of the study precludes conclusions about the migrants' wellbeing and family relations over time.
The cross-sectionalnature of the majority of studies also fails to follow the natural history of executive or frontal deficits.
The second problem with the earlier work was its cross-sectionalnature, which hampered the interpretation of statistical associations.
Secondly, the primarily cross-sectionalnature of the analyses limits the ability to draw causal conclusions (particularly with respect to the wellbeing outcomes).
This simple model adequately accounts for the change in shape of the waveforms with age despite the cross-sectionalnature of the data.
The cross-sectionalnature of this work precludes any firm conclusions regarding directionality of links.
In light of the cross-sectionalnature of this study, the direct impact of stress on depression or depression on stress was not determined.
However, because of the cross-sectionalnature of this particular study, no conclusions could be made about a causal relationship between bereavement and memory functioning.
As our corpus is of a cross-sectionalnature, we will focus our analysis on synchronic learner variation in gender agreement and/or assignment.
A second limitation lies in the cross-sectionalnature of this research, which precludes any definitive conclusions about causality.
However, with the cross-sectionalnature of the data, one should be aware of the possible alternative causal path, such as high distress increasing one's negative appraisal.
First, given the cross-sectionalnature of this research, it is not possible to draw causal conclusions from these findings.
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