Empirical (disambiguation)

Empirical may refer to:


 * Epistemic topics


 * Empiricism, a theory of knowledge as coming only or primarily from experience
 * Empirical evidence, a source of knowledge acquired by means of observation or experimentation
 * Empirical research, a way of gaining knowledge by means of direct and indirect observation or experience
 * Empirical relationship, a relationship based solely on observation rather than theory
 * Quasi-empirical method, as close to empiricism as is possible when experience cannot falsify
 * Empirical limits in science, problems with observation, and thus are limits of human ability to inquire and answer questions


 * Music


 * Empirical, the alternative title for the 1972 Jaki Byard album There'll Be Some Changes Made
 * Empirical (jazz band), a British jazz group, formed in 2007, with four musicians


 * Other topics (many are applications of epistemic themes)


 * Empirical distribution function, the cumulative distribution function associated with the empirical measure of the sample
 * Empirical formula, the simplest positive integer ratio of atoms present in a chemical compound
 * Empirical likelihood, an estimation method in statistics
 * Empirical measure, a random measure arising from a particular realization of a (usually finite) sequence of random variables
 * Empirical modelling, computer modelling based on empirical observations rather than on mathematically describable relationships of the system modelled
 * Empirical probability, the ratio of the number of outcomes in which a specified event occurs to the total number of trials
 * Empirical process, a stochastic process that describes the proportion of objects in a system in a given state
 * Empiric therapy, therapy based on clinical educated guesses
 * Empirical, a research vessel that was used by Darth Vader in Star Wars