GEOG 141 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Statistical Hypothesis Testing
13 Apr 2018
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Observations can be directly experienced by you, or could be experiences had by others: generating questions: may appear immediately to your mind upon observation, or you may have to spend much time thinking about them or reflecting. Formulating hypothesis is likely based on past direct experiences or experiences you have read or heard about: develop testable predictions: determines if the hypothesis is true or false. Scientific method generally relies on hypotheses that can be falsified. Hypotheses and resulting testable predictions try to show something is not true (cid:396)athe(cid:396) tha(cid:374) so(cid:373)ethi(cid:374)g is t(cid:396)ue. This information can take a variety of forms, and can be quantifiable measurements or qualitative descriptions, depending on the question, hypotheses, and testable predictions. Once testing predictions begin, hypotheses might have to be altered or refined if data is unavailable or different than initially expected. They might also have to be expanded or changed based on available data and testing methods.
