"establish a hypothesis" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to explain how a researcher should form a tentative answer to a scientific question that they are trying to answer. For example, "In order to determine if a particular substance affects the growth of plants, it is necessary to establish a hypothesis."
The aim of this study was to establish a hypothesis on the difference between OLP and oral mucositis (OM) in terms of tumor suppressor gene expression.
To perform power analysis, we establish a hypothesis first, and then statistical testing is implemented to decide whether the null hypothesis is accepted or rejected.
The study aims to establish a hypothesis on what factors were essential in promoting MDSC during cancer progression to transition from tumor-suppressor cells to tumor-helper cells.
At present, we cannot establish a hypothesis to explain the relationship between systemic IL-6 and phosphorylated-Akt in muscle found in rats fed B. animalis subsp. lactis IPLA R1.
Whenever Toyota defines a specification, it is establishing a hypothesis that is then tested through action.
Since it is impossible to know the future with certainty, we started by establishing a hypothesis about what skills and attributes this future leader might possess.
Further analysis of the composition and concentration of organic matter entrapped in each cortex nano-layer will be required to establish a mechanistic hypothesis for their deposition.
Our aim was to establish a new hypothesis for the fluidification of the mucus of the vocal folds, by using a scintigraphic method to analyze the relationship of the saliva from the oral and pharyngeal cavities to the mucosa of the laryngeal vestibule.
As pointed out by Pérez-Gil, Chacón, and Moreno (2000), from a unified validity perspective, the meaning of the scoring used is what provides the rational base to arrive at relevant and representative criteria of the test's content and establish a predictive hypothesis that can contribute to understanding the nature of the tool constructed.
In order to establish a clear hypothesis we focused on the classification of pathology proven epithelial ovarian cancers from pathology proven ovarian benign conditions.
As many retronuons have the potential to add functions to a gene [37], it was reasonable to establish a working hypothesis that ID elements might alter subcellular localizations of mRNAs from somatic alone to somatic and dendritic if, for example, they became integrated within the UTR of the mRNA.
