to prespecify
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7.8
- verb
- /ˌpriːspɪˈsɪfaɪ/
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preespecificar
- Before starting the experiment, the researchers decided to prespecify the criteria for success to avoid any bias.
Examples
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To ensure clarity, the project manager will prespecify all key deliverables in the initial meeting.
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The guidelines prespecify the necessary qualifications for applicants before they can apply for the job.
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Note that the placement background is prespecified in certain chip technologies.
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Well, actually, these subgroup analyses were prespecified, so it's basically legitimate.
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Trial eligibility criteria, blood pressure lowering regimens to be compared, and primary outcomes were all prespecified.
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The data analysis plan was prespecified either in the original protocol or in amendments made before any analyses of the effects of the study treatment on clinical outcomes were available to the steering committee.
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The data analysis plan prespecified that blood homocysteine, vitamin, and cholesterol values would be used to subdivide participants into three similar-sized groups.
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However, while EFA is generally a descriptive or exploratory procedure, in CFA the researcher must prespecify all aspects of the factor model (Brown, 2006).
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A TICS-m score below 22 out of 39 was prespecified to be indicative of cognitive impairment and, as would be expected, was more common among older individuals and among those with a previous stroke.
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Because the hypotheses were prespecified, no adjustments were made to the p-values (Bonferroni correction), as reported per Perneger.
Academic text (2015)
Synonyms
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5.8
Decide or make a result likely before it happens
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4.1
To plan something ahead of time
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8.8
To decide or arrange something before it happens, often by fate
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9.2
To decide in advance, often by fate or God's will
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3.9
To set something before you need to use it
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5.1
Decide and set something before it is needed
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3.7
Choose something in advance
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9.9
Decide before it happens, often by a higher power
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5.8
To give people tasks or seats before they are needed
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5.3
To set up a device or program in advance so it is ready to use
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4.3
To decide what to do before something happens
To tell or write something before it is needed
To choose something in advance for a certain use, like seats or funds
Plan something together in advance
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
prespecify = specify (transparent) = pre + spec + ify
The meaning is directly predictable as 'specify beforehand' or 'state in advance'.
Etymology
The word prespecify combines the prefix pre- meaning 'before' and specify meaning 'to state exactly'. So, to prespecify something is to state it in advance, before an event or process begins.