When Forbes asked AVN how it arrived at this figure, the managing editor responded, "I don't know the exact methodology... It's a pie chart."

The exact methodology for the study, the specific factors to be considered and how the evaluation would be expressed have not yet been determined.

They open new research fields, but do need very exact methodology.

The exact methodology to be used had yet to be agreed upon and could take a few days.

The exact methodology used in creating the list is classified as a trade secret.

Results are also sensitive to the exact methodology of the experimenter.

The newspaper does not disclose its exact methodology.

I will work out the exact amounts and the exact methodology with Congress.

Sagarin, like the developers of many other sports rating systems, does not divulge the exact methodology behind his system.

Value Line's system is proprietary, so we don't know its exact methodology.