What is the definition, concept and purpose of a confirmatory study? It is in terms of research methods.?

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What is the definition, concept and purpose of a confirmatory study? It is in terms of research methods.?
Confirmatory studies are those seeking to test (confirm) a prespecified relationship. As opposed to exploratory studies which define possible relationships in only the most general form and then allow multivariate techniques to estimate a relationship(s).
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–noun 1. a general notion or idea; conception.


2. an idea of something formed by mentally combining all its characteristics or particulars; a construct.


3. a directly conceived or intuited object of thought.


–verb (used with object) 4. Informal. to develop a concept of; conceive: Experts pooled their talents to concept the new car.