0 strictness; harshness -- strenghet, barskhet
1 (also rigours/rigorsnoun plural) (of weather etc) the state of being very bad or unpleasant, or the hardship caused by this -- barskhet, hardhet
Evidence-based medicine: a conflict between rigour and reality 9 the other three were groups of practices (with populations ranging from 19 250 to 88 600).
Unfortunately, despite the care and attention that the experiments have received, and the rigour of the statistical analyses, no clear advantages have been established.
A written code of conduct was followed to maximise procedural rigour.
He breaks from the more romantic uses of oral history, but still stresses the need for empirical rigour.
A further concern was that design products should be governed by intellectual rigour and not merely be the outcome of a design consultancy.
Every step needs engineering rigour, based on sound computer science and supported by formal quality control.
The approach allows rigour in a way that is similar to the use of formal methods in verifying computer programs.
A minimum of rigour, however, was maintained following the best practice of descriptive anthropological/ ethnographic studies.
