A Primer on Empirical Studies

Abstract

INTRODUCTION STRUCTURE OF THE TUTORIAL Many researchers and practitioners want to use empirical methods, but don’t feel confident doing so. One fear is that the methods are expensive to use and hard to use right. This fear may be fueled by methodology Introduction We begin by characterizing various ways of doing empirical studies and indicate the scope of our approach and the layout of the tutorial. Models of Empirical Studies We first layout the space of empirical studies distinarticles that overemphasize the “statistics” of empirical methods, without considering cost.