Class: Experiment

An experiment is an investigation that has the goal of verifying, falsifying, or establishing the validity of a hypothesis.

Parents

is_a: Investigation - investigation is the process of carrying out a plan or procedure so as to discover facts or information about the object of study.

InterventionStudy - An intervention study has the objective of improving the condition of an individual or a group of individuals, and demonstrates the magnitude of that capability by comparing it to a control group.
MassSpectrometryExperiment - A mass spectrometry experiment is an experiment that involves the use of a mass spectrometer.
MicroarrayExperiment - A microarray experiment is an experiment that involves a microarray device to measure the expression of one or more genes.
ObservationalStudy - observational study draws inferences about the possible effect of a treatment on subjects, where the assignment of subjects into a treated group versus a control group is outside the control of the investigator

hasCreator _0..1
- Description: has creator is a relation between an entity and that which created it.
- Range: Entity
hasAttribute _0..1
- Description: has attribute is a relation that associates a entity with an attribute where an attribute is an intrinsic characteristic such as a quality, capability, disposition, function, or is an externally derived attribute determined from some descriptor (e.g. a quantity, position, label/identifier) either directly or indirectly through generalization of entities of the same type.
- Range: Entity
- satisfies _0..1
- Description: satisfies is a relation between an entity and the specification or objective that it conforms to.
- Range: Description
- isRelatedTo _0..1
- Description: A is related to B iff there is some relation between A and B.
- Range: Entity
- hasParticipant _0..1
- Description: has participant is a relation that describes the participation of the object in the (processual) subject.
- Range: Entity