The Scientific Method

Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller () and Jordan Smoller ()
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Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller: Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology and Population Health
Jordan Smoller: Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Psychiatry and Center for Genomic Medicine

Chapter Chapter 1 in Biostatistics and Epidemiology, 2024, pp 1-12 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The whole point of science is to uncover the “truth.” How do we go about deciding something is true? We have two tools at our disposal to pursue scientific inquiry: observation and scientific inference.

Keywords: Null hypothesis; Heart attack; Inductive inference; Puerperal fever; Deductive inference (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-53043-2_1

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