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Represent a versioned provisional proposition with explicit scope, operationalization, predictions, evaluation criteria and source-qualified assessment and revision history.

World Models Information and virtual systems INF.KNW.HYP

Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Classifiers What it is Why it exists Distinguishing features What robots and AI may and may not do Moral aspects Owners Links to other meta-models Identity and identifiers Direct properties Recognition Capabilities and actions Hazards and failure modes Standards and interfaces Context of use Sources

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6 bundles · 12 layers · 24 findings · 72 questions

Hypothesis identity, formulation and kind Groups the governed Resource Consumption concern for hypothesis identity, formulation and kind.

Identity, revision and related-concept boundary

Groups Resource Consumption context for identity, revision and related-concept boundary without importing neighboring master lifecycles.

Hypothesis identifier, namespace, version, revision and successor

Records hypothesis identifier, namespace, version, revision and successor as a source-qualified Hypothesis assertion while claims, assumptions, studies, data, results, evidence, publications and decisions retain external mastership.

Which identity, formulation, hypothesis kind, scope, variables, conditions and revision establish hypothesis identifier, namespace, version, revision and successor? identity
Who proposed, owns, operationalizes, evaluates, reviews, corrects or discloses hypothesis identifier, namespace, version, revision and successor, and under which authority? ownership
Which predictions, criteria, evidence, uncertainty, competing assessments, lineage and interoperability limits qualify hypothesis identifier, namespace, version, revision and successor? validation

Hypothesis, question, assumption, prediction, theory, claim, objective and result distinction

Records hypothesis, question, assumption, prediction, theory, claim, objective and result distinction as a source-qualified Hypothesis assertion while claims, assumptions, studies, data, results, evidence, publications and decisions retain external mastership.

Which identity, formulation, hypothesis kind, scope, variables, conditions and revision establish hypothesis, question, assumption, prediction, theory, claim, objective and result distinction? classification
Who proposed, owns, operationalizes, evaluates, reviews, corrects or discloses hypothesis, question, assumption, prediction, theory, claim, objective and result distinction, and under which authority? authority
Which predictions, criteria, evidence, uncertainty, competing assessments, lineage and interoperability limits qualify hypothesis, question, assumption, prediction, theory, claim, objective and result distinction? security

Expression, language and formalization

Groups Resource Consumption context for expression, language and formalization without importing neighboring master lifecycles.

Natural-language proposition, language, terms and scope note

Records natural-language proposition, language, terms and scope note as a source-qualified Hypothesis assertion while claims, assumptions, studies, data, results, evidence, publications and decisions retain external mastership.

Which identity, formulation, hypothesis kind, scope, variables, conditions and revision establish natural-language proposition, language, terms and scope note? definition
Who proposed, owns, operationalizes, evaluates, reviews, corrects or discloses natural-language proposition, language, terms and scope note, and under which authority? requirement
Which predictions, criteria, evidence, uncertainty, competing assessments, lineage and interoperability limits qualify natural-language proposition, language, terms and scope note? privacy

Formal expression, variables, quantifiers, negation, relation and logic profile

Records formal expression, variables, quantifiers, negation, relation and logic profile as a source-qualified Hypothesis assertion while claims, assumptions, studies, data, results, evidence, publications and decisions retain external mastership.

Which identity, formulation, hypothesis kind, scope, variables, conditions and revision establish formal expression, variables, quantifiers, negation, relation and logic profile? constraint
Who proposed, owns, operationalizes, evaluates, reviews, corrects or discloses formal expression, variables, quantifiers, negation, relation and logic profile, and under which authority? constraint
Which predictions, criteria, evidence, uncertainty, competing assessments, lineage and interoperability limits qualify formal expression, variables, quantifiers, negation, relation and logic profile? retention

Classification, scope, variables and conditions Groups the governed Resource Consumption concern for classification, scope, variables and conditions.

Hypothesis type and test profile

Groups Resource Consumption context for hypothesis type and test profile without importing neighboring master lifecycles.

Scientific, statistical, causal, associational, descriptive, explanatory and predictive kind

Records scientific, statistical, causal, associational, descriptive, explanatory and predictive kind as a source-qualified Hypothesis assertion while claims, assumptions, studies, data, results, evidence, publications and decisions retain external mastership.

Which identity, formulation, hypothesis kind, scope, variables, conditions and revision establish scientific, statistical, causal, associational, descriptive, explanatory and predictive kind? classification
Who proposed, owns, operationalizes, evaluates, reviews, corrects or discloses scientific, statistical, causal, associational, descriptive, explanatory and predictive kind, and under which authority? process
Which predictions, criteria, evidence, uncertainty, competing assessments, lineage and interoperability limits qualify scientific, statistical, causal, associational, descriptive, explanatory and predictive kind? access

Null, alternative, directional, equivalence, noninferiority, universal and existential profile

Records null, alternative, directional, equivalence, noninferiority, universal and existential profile as a source-qualified Hypothesis assertion while claims, assumptions, studies, data, results, evidence, publications and decisions retain external mastership.

Which identity, formulation, hypothesis kind, scope, variables, conditions and revision establish null, alternative, directional, equivalence, noninferiority, universal and existential profile? classification
Who proposed, owns, operationalizes, evaluates, reviews, corrects or discloses null, alternative, directional, equivalence, noninferiority, universal and existential profile, and under which authority? event
Which predictions, criteria, evidence, uncertainty, competing assessments, lineage and interoperability limits qualify null, alternative, directional, equivalence, noninferiority, universal and existential profile? exception

Population, variables, relations and boundary

Groups Resource Consumption context for population, variables, relations and boundary without importing neighboring master lifecycles.

Domain, population, unit, phenomenon, context, condition and exclusion

Records domain, population, unit, phenomenon, context, condition and exclusion as a source-qualified Hypothesis assertion while claims, assumptions, studies, data, results, evidence, publications and decisions retain external mastership.

Which identity, formulation, hypothesis kind, scope, variables, conditions and revision establish domain, population, unit, phenomenon, context, condition and exclusion? constraint
Who proposed, owns, operationalizes, evaluates, reviews, corrects or discloses domain, population, unit, phenomenon, context, condition and exclusion, and under which authority? measurement
Which predictions, criteria, evidence, uncertainty, competing assessments, lineage and interoperability limits qualify domain, population, unit, phenomenon, context, condition and exclusion? interoperability

Independent, dependent, exposure, outcome, comparator, confounder, covariate and mediator

Records independent, dependent, exposure, outcome, comparator, confounder, covariate and mediator as a source-qualified Hypothesis assertion while claims, assumptions, studies, data, results, evidence, publications and decisions retain external mastership.

Which identity, formulation, hypothesis kind, scope, variables, conditions and revision establish independent, dependent, exposure, outcome, comparator, confounder, covariate and mediator? relationship
Who proposed, owns, operationalizes, evaluates, reviews, corrects or discloses independent, dependent, exposure, outcome, comparator, confounder, covariate and mediator, and under which authority? evidence
Which predictions, criteria, evidence, uncertainty, competing assessments, lineage and interoperability limits qualify independent, dependent, exposure, outcome, comparator, confounder, covariate and mediator? decision

Provenance, rationale, assumptions and prior evidence Groups the governed Resource Consumption concern for provenance, rationale, assumptions and prior evidence.

Authorship, motivation and rationale

Groups Resource Consumption context for authorship, motivation and rationale without importing neighboring master lifecycles.

Proposer, owner, contributor, source, time and authority

Records proposer, owner, contributor, source, time and authority as a source-qualified Hypothesis assertion while claims, assumptions, studies, data, results, evidence, publications and decisions retain external mastership.

Which identity, formulation, hypothesis kind, scope, variables, conditions and revision establish proposer, owner, contributor, source, time and authority? provenance
Who proposed, owns, operationalizes, evaluates, reviews, corrects or discloses proposer, owner, contributor, source, time and authority, and under which authority? quality
Which predictions, criteria, evidence, uncertainty, competing assessments, lineage and interoperability limits qualify proposer, owner, contributor, source, time and authority? identity

Research question, motivation, gap, mechanism, rationale and intended use

Records research question, motivation, gap, mechanism, rationale and intended use as a source-qualified Hypothesis assertion while claims, assumptions, studies, data, results, evidence, publications and decisions retain external mastership.

Which identity, formulation, hypothesis kind, scope, variables, conditions and revision establish research question, motivation, gap, mechanism, rationale and intended use? definition
Who proposed, owns, operationalizes, evaluates, reviews, corrects or discloses research question, motivation, gap, mechanism, rationale and intended use, and under which authority? validation
Which predictions, criteria, evidence, uncertainty, competing assessments, lineage and interoperability limits qualify research question, motivation, gap, mechanism, rationale and intended use? classification

Assumption, theory, prior and evidence context

Groups Resource Consumption context for assumption, theory, prior and evidence context without importing neighboring master lifecycles.

Background theory, model, assumption, prior belief and dependency

Records background theory, model, assumption, prior belief and dependency as a source-qualified Hypothesis assertion while claims, assumptions, studies, data, results, evidence, publications and decisions retain external mastership.

Which identity, formulation, hypothesis kind, scope, variables, conditions and revision establish background theory, model, assumption, prior belief and dependency? relationship
Who proposed, owns, operationalizes, evaluates, reviews, corrects or discloses background theory, model, assumption, prior belief and dependency, and under which authority? security
Which predictions, criteria, evidence, uncertainty, competing assessments, lineage and interoperability limits qualify background theory, model, assumption, prior belief and dependency? composition

Prior evidence, citation, support, challenge, gap, bias and conflict

Records prior evidence, citation, support, challenge, gap, bias and conflict as a source-qualified Hypothesis assertion while claims, assumptions, studies, data, results, evidence, publications and decisions retain external mastership.

Which identity, formulation, hypothesis kind, scope, variables, conditions and revision establish prior evidence, citation, support, challenge, gap, bias and conflict? evidence
Who proposed, owns, operationalizes, evaluates, reviews, corrects or discloses prior evidence, citation, support, challenge, gap, bias and conflict, and under which authority? privacy
Which predictions, criteria, evidence, uncertainty, competing assessments, lineage and interoperability limits qualify prior evidence, citation, support, challenge, gap, bias and conflict? relationship

Operationalization, prediction, criteria and evaluation design Groups the governed Resource Consumption concern for operationalization, prediction, criteria and evaluation design.

Operational definition, measure and prediction

Groups Resource Consumption context for operational definition, measure and prediction without importing neighboring master lifecycles.

Construct, indicator, operation, instrument, measure, estimand and unit

Records construct, indicator, operation, instrument, measure, estimand and unit as a source-qualified Hypothesis assertion while claims, assumptions, studies, data, results, evidence, publications and decisions retain external mastership.

Which identity, formulation, hypothesis kind, scope, variables, conditions and revision establish construct, indicator, operation, instrument, measure, estimand and unit? measurement
Who proposed, owns, operationalizes, evaluates, reviews, corrects or discloses construct, indicator, operation, instrument, measure, estimand and unit, and under which authority? retention
Which predictions, criteria, evidence, uncertainty, competing assessments, lineage and interoperability limits qualify construct, indicator, operation, instrument, measure, estimand and unit? state

Predicted observation, effect, direction, range, timing and potential falsifier

Records predicted observation, effect, direction, range, timing and potential falsifier as a source-qualified Hypothesis assertion while claims, assumptions, studies, data, results, evidence, publications and decisions retain external mastership.

Which identity, formulation, hypothesis kind, scope, variables, conditions and revision establish predicted observation, effect, direction, range, timing and potential falsifier? requirement
Who proposed, owns, operationalizes, evaluates, reviews, corrects or discloses predicted observation, effect, direction, range, timing and potential falsifier, and under which authority? access
Which predictions, criteria, evidence, uncertainty, competing assessments, lineage and interoperability limits qualify predicted observation, effect, direction, range, timing and potential falsifier? lifecycle

Criterion, protocol, study and preregistration

Groups Resource Consumption context for criterion, protocol, study and preregistration without importing neighboring master lifecycles.

Decision threshold, error rate, power, multiplicity, practical significance and stop rule

Records decision threshold, error rate, power, multiplicity, practical significance and stop rule as a source-qualified Hypothesis assertion while claims, assumptions, studies, data, results, evidence, publications and decisions retain external mastership.

Which identity, formulation, hypothesis kind, scope, variables, conditions and revision establish decision threshold, error rate, power, multiplicity, practical significance and stop rule? decision
Who proposed, owns, operationalizes, evaluates, reviews, corrects or discloses decision threshold, error rate, power, multiplicity, practical significance and stop rule, and under which authority? exception
Which predictions, criteria, evidence, uncertainty, competing assessments, lineage and interoperability limits qualify decision threshold, error rate, power, multiplicity, practical significance and stop rule? temporal

Protocol, study, experiment, test, dataset, analysis plan, registration and deviation

Records protocol, study, experiment, test, dataset, analysis plan, registration and deviation as a source-qualified Hypothesis assertion while claims, assumptions, studies, data, results, evidence, publications and decisions retain external mastership.

Which identity, formulation, hypothesis kind, scope, variables, conditions and revision establish protocol, study, experiment, test, dataset, analysis plan, registration and deviation? process
Who proposed, owns, operationalizes, evaluates, reviews, corrects or discloses protocol, study, experiment, test, dataset, analysis plan, registration and deviation, and under which authority? interoperability
Which predictions, criteria, evidence, uncertainty, competing assessments, lineage and interoperability limits qualify protocol, study, experiment, test, dataset, analysis plan, registration and deviation? spatial

Assessment, evidence, uncertainty and lifecycle Groups the governed Resource Consumption concern for assessment, evidence, uncertainty and lifecycle.

Result, evidence and assessment

Groups Resource Consumption context for result, evidence and assessment without importing neighboring master lifecycles.

Observation, result, estimate, effect, uncertainty, p-value, confidence and Bayes factor

Records observation, result, estimate, effect, uncertainty, p-value, confidence and bayes factor as a source-qualified Hypothesis assertion while claims, assumptions, studies, data, results, evidence, publications and decisions retain external mastership.

Which identity, formulation, hypothesis kind, scope, variables, conditions and revision establish observation, result, estimate, effect, uncertainty, p-value, confidence and bayes factor? measurement
Who proposed, owns, operationalizes, evaluates, reviews, corrects or discloses observation, result, estimate, effect, uncertainty, p-value, confidence and bayes factor, and under which authority? decision
Which predictions, criteria, evidence, uncertainty, competing assessments, lineage and interoperability limits qualify observation, result, estimate, effect, uncertainty, p-value, confidence and bayes factor? provenance

Support, challenge, refutation, corroboration, inconclusive and scope-qualified assessment

Records support, challenge, refutation, corroboration, inconclusive and scope-qualified assessment as a source-qualified Hypothesis assertion while claims, assumptions, studies, data, results, evidence, publications and decisions retain external mastership.

Which identity, formulation, hypothesis kind, scope, variables, conditions and revision establish support, challenge, refutation, corroboration, inconclusive and scope-qualified assessment? validation
Who proposed, owns, operationalizes, evaluates, reviews, corrects or discloses support, challenge, refutation, corroboration, inconclusive and scope-qualified assessment, and under which authority? identity
Which predictions, criteria, evidence, uncertainty, competing assessments, lineage and interoperability limits qualify support, challenge, refutation, corroboration, inconclusive and scope-qualified assessment? ownership

State, review, correction and evolution

Groups Resource Consumption context for state, review, correction and evolution without importing neighboring master lifecycles.

Proposed, preregistered, under-test, evaluated, supported, unsupported, refuted and withdrawn state

Records proposed, preregistered, under-test, evaluated, supported, unsupported, refuted and withdrawn state as a source-qualified Hypothesis assertion while claims, assumptions, studies, data, results, evidence, publications and decisions retain external mastership.

Which identity, formulation, hypothesis kind, scope, variables, conditions and revision establish proposed, preregistered, under-test, evaluated, supported, unsupported, refuted and withdrawn state? lifecycle
Who proposed, owns, operationalizes, evaluates, reviews, corrects or discloses proposed, preregistered, under-test, evaluated, supported, unsupported, refuted and withdrawn state, and under which authority? classification
Which predictions, criteria, evidence, uncertainty, competing assessments, lineage and interoperability limits qualify proposed, preregistered, under-test, evaluated, supported, unsupported, refuted and withdrawn state? authority

Review, dispute, correction, reformulation, split, merge, revision and supersession

Records review, dispute, correction, reformulation, split, merge, revision and supersession as a source-qualified Hypothesis assertion while claims, assumptions, studies, data, results, evidence, publications and decisions retain external mastership.

Which identity, formulation, hypothesis kind, scope, variables, conditions and revision establish review, dispute, correction, reformulation, split, merge, revision and supersession? lifecycle
Who proposed, owns, operationalizes, evaluates, reviews, corrects or discloses review, dispute, correction, reformulation, split, merge, revision and supersession, and under which authority? composition
Which predictions, criteria, evidence, uncertainty, competing assessments, lineage and interoperability limits qualify review, dispute, correction, reformulation, split, merge, revision and supersession? requirement

Governance, access, reuse and interoperability Groups the governed Resource Consumption concern for governance, access, reuse and interoperability.

Roles, ethics, quality, access and retention

Groups Resource Consumption context for roles, ethics, quality, access and retention without importing neighboring master lifecycles.

Owner, investigator, reviewer, steward, conflict, ethics and accountability

Records owner, investigator, reviewer, steward, conflict, ethics and accountability as a source-qualified Hypothesis assertion while claims, assumptions, studies, data, results, evidence, publications and decisions retain external mastership.

Which identity, formulation, hypothesis kind, scope, variables, conditions and revision establish owner, investigator, reviewer, steward, conflict, ethics and accountability? authority
Who proposed, owns, operationalizes, evaluates, reviews, corrects or discloses owner, investigator, reviewer, steward, conflict, ethics and accountability, and under which authority? relationship
Which predictions, criteria, evidence, uncertainty, competing assessments, lineage and interoperability limits qualify owner, investigator, reviewer, steward, conflict, ethics and accountability? constraint

Consent, privacy, confidentiality, openness, license, access, retention and legal hold

Records consent, privacy, confidentiality, openness, license, access, retention and legal hold as a source-qualified Hypothesis assertion while claims, assumptions, studies, data, results, evidence, publications and decisions retain external mastership.

Which identity, formulation, hypothesis kind, scope, variables, conditions and revision establish consent, privacy, confidentiality, openness, license, access, retention and legal hold? access
Who proposed, owns, operationalizes, evaluates, reviews, corrects or discloses consent, privacy, confidentiality, openness, license, access, retention and legal hold, and under which authority? state
Which predictions, criteria, evidence, uncertainty, competing assessments, lineage and interoperability limits qualify consent, privacy, confidentiality, openness, license, access, retention and legal hold? process

Standards crosswalk, conformance and loss

Groups Resource Consumption context for standards crosswalk, conformance and loss without importing neighboring master lifecycles.

NIST, ISO, JCGM, trial, OBI, STATO, ECO, W3C, DataCite, RO-Crate and FAIR crosswalk

Records nist, iso, jcgm, trial, obi, stato, eco, w3c, datacite, ro-crate and fair crosswalk as a source-qualified Hypothesis assertion while claims, assumptions, studies, data, results, evidence, publications and decisions retain external mastership.

Which identity, formulation, hypothesis kind, scope, variables, conditions and revision establish nist, iso, jcgm, trial, obi, stato, eco, w3c, datacite, ro-crate and fair crosswalk? interoperability
Who proposed, owns, operationalizes, evaluates, reviews, corrects or discloses nist, iso, jcgm, trial, obi, stato, eco, w3c, datacite, ro-crate and fair crosswalk, and under which authority? lifecycle
Which predictions, criteria, evidence, uncertainty, competing assessments, lineage and interoperability limits qualify nist, iso, jcgm, trial, obi, stato, eco, w3c, datacite, ro-crate and fair crosswalk? event

Profile, version, license, conformance, transformation and semantic loss

Records profile, version, license, conformance, transformation and semantic loss as a source-qualified Hypothesis assertion while claims, assumptions, studies, data, results, evidence, publications and decisions retain external mastership.

Which identity, formulation, hypothesis kind, scope, variables, conditions and revision establish profile, version, license, conformance, transformation and semantic loss? validation
Who proposed, owns, operationalizes, evaluates, reviews, corrects or discloses profile, version, license, conformance, transformation and semantic loss, and under which authority? temporal
Which predictions, criteria, evidence, uncertainty, competing assessments, lineage and interoperability limits qualify profile, version, license, conformance, transformation and semantic loss? measurement

Classifiers Filled

Family: World Models
Category: Information and virtual systems
Entry kind: entity
Navigation path: NAV.INF.KNW.HYP
Domain: INF.KNW.HYP
Industry: Cross-industry
Tags: hypothesisinf.knw.hyp

What it is Filled

Owns hypothesis identity and revision; proposition expressions; hypothesis kind and profile; subject domain, population, unit, variables, relationships, conditions and boundary; proposer, owner, source, motivation, rationale, assumptions and prior-evidence references; operational definitions, measures, estimands, predictions, falsifiers and criteria; preregistration and deviations; study, test, dataset, analysis, result and evidence references; source-qualified assessments, uncertainty, conflicts, review, correction, lifecycle, access, retention and loss-aware projections. Generic claims, assumptions, theories, questions, studies, protocols, tests, data, observations, results, evidence, citations, publications, people, organizations, decisions and policies remain external masters.

In scope

Hypothesis identity, formulation, kind, scope, variables, conditions, revision and successor lineage
Rationale, assumptions, prior evidence, operationalization, predictions, criteria, preregistration and evaluation bindings
Assessment, uncertainty, conflict, lifecycle, provenance, governance, access, retention and interoperability

Out of scope

Owning generic claim, assumption, theory, question, study, protocol, test, dataset, observation, result, evidence, citation, publication, party, decision or policy lifecycles
Equating hypothesis with question, assumption, prediction, theory, model, objective, requirement, result or truth, or equating non-rejection, statistical significance, practical importance, causality and truth
Executing research participation, experiments, protected-data access, publication, policy decisions, external system mutation or irreversible deletion

Why it exists Filled

Represent a versioned provisional proposition with explicit scope, operationalization, predictions, evaluation criteria and source-qualified assessment and revision history.

Distinguishing features Filled

A testable provisional proposition about a defined population and variables, unlike a research question, which asks without asserting.
Differs from an assumption, which is taken as true for a purpose and is not put to test.
Differs from a theory or model, which explains many findings, and from a prediction, which is one expected observation derived from it.
Failure to reject a hypothesis is not proof of it, and statistical significance is not practical importance.

What robots and AI may and may not do Filled

Must not

Mark a hypothesis as true or confirmed on the basis of one result, p-value or citation count.
Rewrite a preregistered hypothesis after the results are known without recording the change.
Draw causal conclusions from a correlational design.
Start data collection from human participants or access protected data.
Publish a finding or claim on behalf of investigators.

Only with a human decision

Approving research that involves human or animal subjects.
Publishing claims or conclusions drawn from the hypothesis.
Using an assessed hypothesis as the basis for a policy or clinical decision.

May

Record a hypothesis with its proposition, variables, population, conditions and rationale.
Operationalise it with measures and an evaluation plan linked to a study.
Compare a reported analysis with the preregistered plan and flag deviations.
Record an assessment with its evidence, uncertainty and the method used.

Moral aspects Filled

Hypotheses about groups of people can stigmatise them if framed or reported carelessly.
Changing hypotheses after seeing data and selective reporting mislead others who rely on the findings.
Testing on people or animals needs ethical review, consent and the least harmful design.

Who is affected

Research participants and animals used in studies
Communities and groups the hypothesis is about
Researchers and reviewers
Decision makers and the public who use the findings

Owners Filled

Steward

Declare the Dimension owner, hypothesis steward, knowledge owners, investigators, measurement authorities, reviewers and accountable decision roles.

Roles

Dimension owner: Own namespace, mastership, delegation, access, retention and federation rules.
Hypothesis steward: Own hypothesis identity, kind, formulation, lifecycle and revision policy.
Proposer or investigator: Own formulation, rationale, assumptions, scope and declared conflicts.
Method or measurement steward: Own operational definitions, measures, instruments, protocols and quality assertions.
Analyst or evaluator: Own analysis method, result interpretation, uncertainty and assessment assertion.
Independent reviewer: Review scope, preregistration, deviations, evidence, bias, conflicts and corrections without rewriting originals.
Ethics or data steward: Own consent, privacy, confidentiality, data use and retention constraints.
Disclosure authority: Approve recipient, purpose, redaction, publication claim and timing.

Links to other meta-models Filled

references

WM-KNW-007 Claim / Proposition - Resolve the broader truth-apt proposition while the candidate parent relation remains under joint boundary review.
WM-KNW-016 Assumption and research-question, theory, model and prediction masters - Resolve premises and conceptual context without conflating them with the hypothesis.
Study, protocol, experiment, test, dataset, observation, result, evidence and publication masters - Resolve evaluation design, execution and evidence while preserving external lifecycle authority.

aligned

NIST statistics, ISO 3534-1 and JCGM VIM and GUM - Project statistical-test, measurement and uncertainty semantics as pinned methods.
ClinicalTrials.gov and WHO trial registration - Project prospective health-study hypothesis, outcome, protocol and result views as domain profiles.
OSF preregistration, OECD Frascati and UNESCO Open Science - Project registration, research-activity and transparent scientific-process context.
OBI, STATO and ECO - Project investigation, statistical-method, evidence and conclusion vocabulary with domain caveats.
PROV-O, Web Annotation, DQV, ODRL and SHACL - Project provenance, annotation, quality, access and graph-validation semantics.
DataCite 4.7, RO-Crate 1.3, Schema.org Claim and FAIR - Project research-resource identity, packaging, claim discovery and reuse metadata.
RFC 3339 - Project unambiguous proposal, registration, evaluation, review and correction clocks.

neighbor

WM-KNW-007 Claim / Proposition - Hypothesis specializes a proposition as provisional and evaluable through scope, predictions and criteria. Generic claim identity and assertion lifecycle remain external; the candidate parent signal is held for review.
WM-KNW-016 Assumption - An assumption is a premise accepted for a bounded purpose. A hypothesis is proposed for evaluation; assumptions it depends on remain separately identifiable.
Research question, theory, model and prediction - A question solicits an answer, a theory or model supplies explanatory structure and a prediction states an expected observation. The hypothesis links them without importing their identities.
Study, protocol, test and preregistration - These define or execute an evaluation. The hypothesis records typed references, criteria and deviations but not operational study lifecycle.
Result, evidence and assessment - Results and evidence are external records. The hypothesis owns source-qualified assessment links but no context-free truth flag.
Decision and policy - An assessment may inform an external decision, but the accountable choice, policy, clinical action or regulatory consequence is not owned by the hypothesis.
Research object and publication - RO-Crate, DataCite and FAIR projections package or identify research outputs. They do not replace the hypothesis proposition, revision or evaluation semantics.

parent

WM-KNW-007

What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled

Sources Filled

NIST/SEMATECH Engineering Statistics Handbook - National Institute of Standards and Technology
Product and Process Comparisons: Introduction - National Institute of Standards and Technology
ISO 3534-1 Statistics vocabulary - International Organization for Standardization
International Vocabulary of Metrology - Joint Committee for Guides in Metrology
Guide to the Expression of Uncertainty in Measurement - Joint Committee for Guides in Metrology
Protocol Registration Data Element Definitions - United States National Library of Medicine
Results Data Element Definitions - United States National Library of Medicine
WHO Trial Registration Data Set - World Health Organization
Create a Preregistration - Center for Open Science
Frascati Manual 2015 - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Recommendation on Open Science - UNESCO
Ontology for Biomedical Investigations - OBI Consortium
STATO: an Ontology of Statistical Methods - STATO Consortium
Evidence and Conclusion Ontology - ECO Consortium
PROV-O: The PROV Ontology - World Wide Web Consortium
Web Annotation Data Model - World Wide Web Consortium
Data Quality Vocabulary - World Wide Web Consortium
ODRL Information Model 2.2 - World Wide Web Consortium
Shapes Constraint Language - World Wide Web Consortium
DataCite Metadata Schema - DataCite
RO-Crate Specification - RO-Crate Community
Schema.org Claim - Schema.org Community Group
RFC 3339 Date and Time on the Internet - Internet Engineering Task Force
FAIR Guiding Principles - Nature Scientific Data

Open questions

Discipline, study-design, statistical, Bayesian, causal-inference, machine-learning, ethics, jurisdiction, privacy, licensing and retention profiles require expert review.
Claims, assumptions, theories, questions, studies, protocols, tests, datasets, observations, results, evidence, publications and decisions remain neighboring masters.
Automated experiment design, causal identification, power calculation, model selection, evidence grading, replication scoring and truth adjudication remain future work.

Machine files

Card as JSON Specification AGENTS.md Source Card backlog vercy.card/1

Provenance

world-models research · reviewable-draft

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