0 a show of the work an artist has done in their life so far: --
a Hockney retrospective/a retrospective of Hockney's work
2 looking back over the past: --
3 if a law, decision, etc. is retrospective, it has effect from a date in the past before it was approved: --
This attitude is particularly noticeable in retrospective writing on rock history, which often obliterates any trace of all but a token few women.
To determine if analyses between removal and exclosure control plots were 'real', retrospective power analyses were conducted using a two-sample unequal variance calculation.
For those patients with a diagnosis of hip fracture, the design was retrospective because of the urgent nature of the process.
This is a salutary lesson for truly prospective, rather than reconstructed cohorts in terms of filling in missing data with retrospective information.
Also, for retrospective studies, questionnaires administered after disease occurrence are often the only feasible tool to obtain information regarding risk behaviours that preceded disease.
The use of retrospective self-reporting on behalf of the participants is also a limiting factor when investigating behavior change.
Retrospective confirmation that all regional laboratory results had been received was not possible, however the records of returns from each laboratory contained no apparent omissions.
Some observers contend that men tend to be prospective whereas women are retrospective in their political-economic assessments.
