Meaning of phrases.

[Piak]

What are the meaning or could you explain the meaning in simple English of
1. A multi-tiered approach will be adopted.
2. A longitudinal design, cross-validation of the findings.
Please!

Thank you and best regards,
Piak

[RonBee]

If you can supply some context I can make a better guess at the meanings of those expressions.

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"multi-tiered approach"

It sounds very technical. If anyone is curious enough, check out the Google search.

I'm not that curious about it myself.

:P 8) :)

[Tdol]

1. A multi-tiered approach will be adopted.
I'd say that this means the approach will have different levels.
2. A longitudinal design, cross-validation of the findings.

This one doesn't make much sense to me, although it might make sense in technical jargon. I don't get the 'longitudinal design' part. can you give us a bit more context?

[RonBee]

Re: multi-tiered

I think it means having many different approaches to the same thing.

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[Piak]

Yes, they are technical jargon. That ‘s all, I can remember for now, I am sorry not to be able to provide more contexts of these phrases at the moment, but I will try to get some for you to help me. How about the “cross-validation of the findings”, does it make any sense to you. Please simplify it for me, if possible. Thank you again.

[RonBee]

How about the “cross-validation of the findings”

It might mean using more than one test to determine the validity of a finding.

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[Tdol]

Cross-validation is done by comparison,isn't it?

[Piak]

It might be so. It, however, helps me a lot to get better meaniing of this phrase.
Thank you again RonBee and Tdol.

Best regards,
Piak

[Piak]

It might be so. It, however, helps me a lot to get better meaning of this phrase.
Thank you again RonBee and Tdol.

Best regards,
Piak