retrospective sampling

a technique in which participants or cases from the general population are selected for inclusion in experiments or other research based on their previous exposure to a risk factor or the completion of some particular process. Participants are then examined in the present to see if a particular condition or state exists, often in comparison to others who were not exposed to the risk or did not complete the particular process. Compare prospective sampling.

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November 25th 2024

dynamic self-distribution

in Gestalt psychology, the tendency of the constituents of a whole to arrange themselves in a way that is influenced by the totality and the role of each part in that totality. [attributed to Wolfgang Köhler]