Conducting Scientific Research: Research Hypothesis and Null Hypothesis

Research Hypothesis

Research Hypothesis

Research Hypothesis A research hypothesis is the statement created by researchers when they speculate upon the outcome of a research or experiment. Every true experimental design [1] must have this statement at the core of its structure, as the ultimate aim of any experiment. The hypothesis is generated via a number of means, but is usually the result of a process of inductive reasoning [2] whe...

Research Hypothesis

Unlimited hypothesis research.

Iread with great interest and a certain amount of perturbation the August Editorial by Laurie Goodman (1999). In sharp disagreement with the author, I believe that rather than being the “most efficient means of advancing our scientific understanding” hypothesis-free data collection would be completely devoid of any advancement at all. It is indeed the hypothesis that “follows the data”. No one ...

Informatics and hypothesis-driven research.

The amassing of enormous data sets in genomics, proteomics and imaging has led a number of scientists to envision a future in which automated data-mining techniques, or 'data-driven discovery', will eventually rival the traditional hypothesis-driven research that has dominated biomedical science for at least the past century. It is no surprise that prominent scientists have expressed their scep...