February, 2003
© 2000, 2001, 2003 Scott S. Emerson, M.D., Ph.D.
Session 1- Overview: 15
Goals
A well designed experiment discriminates between hypotheses (The Scientist Game)
·The hypotheses should be the most important, viable hypotheses
·All other things being equal, it should be equally informative for all possible outcomes
-Binary search (using prior probability of being true)
-But may need to consider simplicity of experiments, time, cost
Scientific Experimentation