Hypothesis

• Hypo - tentative; subject for verification

  Thesis - statement about the solution on a problem
• Characteristics:

  • conjecture upon a relationship between two or more variables
  • be stated clearly and unambiguously in a declarative statement
  • Be testable
• Null Hypothesis

  • No Difference
  • No relationship
  • No effect (IV -> DV)
• Alternative Hypothesis, There is:

  • a difference
  • change/relationship
  • effect (IV -> DV)
• Parameter

  • characteristics that are used to define a given population