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We now turn to the empirical cycle, which is a rational way to answer scientific knowledge questions. It is structured as a checklist of issues to decide when a researcher designs a research setup and wants to reason about the data produced by this setup.
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Wieringa, R.J. (2014). The Empirical Cycle. In: Design Science Methodology for Information Systems and Software Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43839-8_10
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