Descriptive and Hypothesis-Driven Research

Informatics and hypothesis-driven research.

The amassing of enormous data sets in genomics, proteomics and imaging has led a number of scientists to envision a future in which automated data-mining techniques, or 'data-driven discovery', will eventually rival the traditional hypothesis-driven research that has dominated biomedical science for at least the past century. It is no surprise that prominent scientists have expressed their scep...

Descriptive Science A recent Guest Commentary from Infection and Immunity provides some insights on descriptive versus hypothesis-driven research

T he Instructions to Authors for Infection and Immunity state that “IAI will not consider papers that are . . . purely descriptive.” When applied to science, the word “descriptive” has acquired dismissive or pejorative connotations and is frequently provided as justification for rejection of a manuscript or grant application. Given the widespread use of this adjective and its profound implicati...

Technology driven strategy model in Research and Technology Organization

The purpose of this study was to provide a technology driven strategy model with an interpretive structure approach in the Petrochemical Research and Technology Company. The present study is descriptive, survey in terms of the nature of the research and applied in terms of purpose. By reviewing the research literature and expert opinion polls, 10 effective factors were identified along with the...

Hypothesis-driven accent discrimination

Native and non-native use of language differs, depending on the proficiency of the speaker, in clear and quantifiable ways. It has been shown that customizing the acoustic and language models of a natural language understanding system can significantly improve handling of non-native input; in order to make such a switch, however, the nativeness status of the user must be known. In this paper, w...

Descriptive Research Design