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by pwr-electronics 1517 days ago
As the article below explains, it's a combination of structured qualitative analysis and a review process. That process builds on top of all the other application-specific or discipline-specific processes, like a hierarchy. The higher up you go, the more generic it gets. The lower down you go, the more you critique the exact math or test or whatever.

https://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1996ESASP.377...83F