Hybrid/hybridity - Hybrids result from the mixing of two or more distinct things. In relation to cultures, the terms emphasize the positive and productive results of mixing different cultures, producing new and distinctive cultural forms, often out of the experiences of diaspora populations or transnational communities. It is used to reject the negative ideas of cultural assimilation or pollution.
Hyperlink - This is an invisible link that connects you to text segments in the same or other, pictures or HTML pages. Through (double) clicking on the link, you can access the text, picture or Webpage.
Hypothesis - A testable research statement or question for investigation, often linking observation to an assumed cause or set of causes.
Image analysis - Either manual or digital analysis including filtering, enhancement, combination of images, and classification of data.
Indices of dissimilarity and segregation - Statistical measures of differences and similarities in population distributions. The index of dissimilarity measures the difference between two distributions of population sub-groups. The index of segregation measures the difference between the distribution of a sub-group and the total population of which it is part. The scale for both indices runs from 0 (no difference) to 100 (total difference).
Inductive - Generating understandings or theories from the data themselves (‘from the ground up’), as opposed to ‘deductive’ research in which a theory is already adopted and a hypothesis is tested.
Inferential statistics - Procedures applied to sample data in order to make generalizations, validated by probability statements, about the entire population from which the sample was drawn.
Instrumental record - Direct measurements of environmental variables such as temperature and precipitation.
Interval data - A measurement level indicating order and precise distances between observations.
In vivo codes - Codes that use words or phrases that appear in the text.
