Masters Class 2
Proposal Development
Research Question and Hypotheses

Proposal development

Anne Paxton, DrPH

Alfred I. Neugut, MD, PhD

 Problem to be addressed, or research question

Where do research questions come from?

Hypotheses (1-3) must:

Directionality¹causality

What does a dataset contain?

Things you need to know about your dataset

Be specific!

Hypothesis formulation is iterative.

Good hypotheses make good methods.

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