I am writing a technical paper that includes economic analysis. In one section, I need to give a justification for choosing interest rates used in the study. I am trying to say the interest rates were chosen according to the reports of the central bank of the country to make the results of the study reliable and closer to the real conditions.
I am looking for an elegant and academically acceptable phrase or word to describe this.
Best Answer
Reliable is a good word, don't change it.
For the other part I was thinking of accurate which means:
Accurate describes well noun like results, measurements, information.
Factual is close in meaning, but it is not very commonly used to describe results.
But since it is not a single word that you are looking for, you could also use expressions like:
or
I particularly recommend consistent which means:
and
So your sentence could be written as: