Difference between Empirical and Anecdotal

EMPIRICAL vs ANECDOTAL: ADJECTIVE

Relying on medical quackery
Relying on or derived from observation or experiment.
Verifiable or provable by means of observation or experiment.
Guided by practical experience and not theory, especially in medicine.
Pertaining to or based on experience.
Derived from experiment and observation rather than theory
Verifiable by means of scientific experimentation.
Pertaining to, derived from, or testable by observations made using the physical senses or using instruments which extend the senses.

Having the character of an anecdote
Characterized by or given to telling anecdotes
Of, characterized by, or full of anecdotes.
Based on casual observations or indications rather than rigorous or scientific analysis.
Pertaining to, or abounding with, anecdotes.
Of the nature of or relating to an anecdote.
Containing or abounding in anecdotes.

Pertaining to or derived from experience or experiments; depending upon or derived from the observation of phenomena.
As a general proposition, from a narrow range of observation, without any warrant for its exactitude or for its wider validity.
Pertaining to the medical practice of an empiric, in either of the medical senses of that word; hence, charlatanical; quackish.

Anecdotal, Trial and error, Semiempirical, Data based, A posteriori, Trial, Pilot, Test, Model, Confirmable, Experiential, Existential, Experimental, Verifiable, Observational

By catch, Lay, Insulated, Fragmented, Banal, Isolated, Piecemeal, Incidental, Circumstantial, Fragmentary, Empirical, Communicatory, Anecdotical, Anecdotic, Communicative

Anecdotal, Trial and error, Semiempirical, Data based, A posteriori, Trial, Pilot, Test, Model, Confirmable, Experiential, Existential, Experimental, Verifiable, Observational

Unsubstantiated, Lay, Insulated, Fragmented, Banal, Isolated, Piecemeal, Incidental, Circumstantial, Fragmentary, Empirical, Communicatory, Anecdotical, Anecdotic, Communicative

Zhejiang province is collected to conduct empirical research.
SUCCESSFUL MACROECONOMIC THEORIES must explain important empirical regularities.
But the empirical evidence strongly contradicts this theory.
Croatia: An empirical investigation of structure and correlates.
Empirical validation against random samples would be needed.
Summarizing the empirical evidence, the National Commission and other researchers ve found empirical evidence of a variety of problems with rate ceilings.
Theoretical and Empirical Basis The proposal should include a strong theoretical and empirical justification for development of the proposed intervention or strategy.
Scientists make a clear distinction between principles and methods with empirical evidence of reliability and those that lack any empirical validation.
Empirical data has been used, but the thrust of the research is more descriptive than empirical.
Empirical software engineering emphasizes the use of empirical studies of all kinds to accumulate knowledge.

Substantial anecdotal evidence suggests this to be true.
Use metrics and anecdotal evidence to gauge success.
Anecdotal evidence showed that trafficking in persons occurred.
We have here anecdotal evidence for sample bias.
Much of the evidence at present is anecdotal.
These claims are only supported by anecdotal evidence.
While there is anecdotal evidence arguing for a shortage, there is also anecdotal evidence of a surplus.
Positivists are inspired by anecdotal evidence, but anecdotal evidence is never permitted without more rigorous and controlled scientific investigation.
Anecdotal Note Taking There are many different methods to taking anecdotal notes.
Anecdotal Impactsprovides information about anecdotal evidence of the economic impacts of nutrient pollution.