Infectious disease models are both concise statements of hypotheses and powerful techniques for creating tools from hypotheses and theories.
Statements of hypotheses become clearer, controls stronger, designs and procedures better illustrated, and potential outcomes well anticipated.
These include the choice of test relative to experimental or sampling design and breadth of intended inferences, the careful statement of hypotheses, and analyses with small sample sizes.
Statistical rigor and reproducibility are indispensable features of science, necessitating the clear and up-front statement of hypotheses and experimental methods.
For example, MDPH required that the proposed research questions be recast as statements of null hypotheses, a more yes-or-no approach than the study team thought best fit the state of the science.
Evolutionary game theory makes possible a more rigorous statement of this hypothesis, since repeated games are a useful if simplistic approximation of life in a close-knit group (Axelrod 1984 , 1986 Skyrms 1996; Gintis 2000).
The study was "badly written and had no clear statement of its hypothesis or indeed of its conclusions," according to Ben Goldacre, the debunker of scientific fraud.
Other paper characteristics, such as statements of purpose or hypothesis (HYP), did not change as clearly, although papers appeared to improve overall.
Continuum hypothesis, statement of set theory that the set of real numbers (the continuum) is in a sense as small as it can be.
Recently, the statement of "the aging hypothesis for COPD" suggested that this syndrome represents a manifestation of accelerated aging [ 10].
