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Hypothesis is a term that is often used in statistics and research, but sometimes it seems that it is still not entirely clear to people. Even lecturers sometimes have a wrong idea of what a hypothesis is. A hypothesis is basically something very simple. Plainly spoken, it is just a translation of the research question into a testable statement. At the same time, however, a hypothesis is also something quite grand. With a hypothesis, we generate statistically validated knowledge.
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Kronthaler, F. (2023). Hypotheses: Only a Specification of the Question?. In: Statistics Applied With Excel. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-64319-8_9
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