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Figure 11.1 shows again the architecture of the empirical research setup. In this chapter, we discuss the design of each of the components of the research setup, namely, of the object of study (Sect. 11.1), sample (Sect. 11.2), treatment (Sect. 11.3), and measurement (Sect. 11.4).
Empirical research setup, repeated from Fig. 10.2. In observational research, there is no treatment
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Wieringa, R.J. (2014). Research Design. In: Design Science Methodology for Information Systems and Software Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43839-8_11
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