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Hypothesis

An assumption or theory.

During a criminal trial, a hypothesis is a theory set forth by either the prosecution or the defense for the purpose of explaining the facts in evidence. It also serves to set up a ground for an inference of guilt or innocence, or a showing of the most probable motive for a criminal offense.

hypothesis

noun assertion, assignment of cause, assumption, conclusion drawn from accepted truths, conjecture, deduction, guess, inference, postulate, postulation, speculation, suggestion, supposal, surmise, tentative explanation, tentative law, theory, thesis, unproved theory
See also: assumption, basis, belief, conclusion, conjecture, deduction, generalization, idea, inference, opinion, postulate, presumption, prolepsis, proposition, speculation, supposition, theory, thesis
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The proposed method in this study is not based on statistical null hypothesis testing and is independent of sample size.
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Null hypothesis number three was; "There is no significant difference of morale of Education, Psychology, Mass Communication, Economics, International Relations, Management Sciences and Computer Sciences university teachers".
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average over analyses of hypothetically many similar testing situations) fraction of local null hypothesis test rejections ("discoveries") for which the respective null hypotheses are actually true.
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The presentation of a lot of asterisks along with the p value of probability or very small p values only highlights that, in this design, the null hypothesis is not very plausible, but from this, it cannot be inferred that the effect found is important (Gliner et al.
Interpretation of the p value: a national survey study in academic psychologists from Spain/Interpretacion del valor p: una encuesta nacional entre profesores espanoles de Psicologia
5 for the null hypothesis, as is typical for parapsychological experiments with random event generators (REGs).
Beware of inferential errors and low power with Bayesian analyses: power analysis is needed for confirmatory research/Attention aux erreurs inferentielles etaux faibles puissances dans les analyses bayesiennes: l'analyse de puissance est necessaire pour la recherche confirmatoire/Vorsicht vor inferenzfehlern und geringer teststarke bei bayesschen analysen: eine analyse der teststarke wird bei bestatigungsforschung benotigt ..
Section IV develops hypothesis test statistics that can identify systemic risk from stock returns using CoVaR and MES sample estimates under the null hypothesis that returns are Gaussian.
Testing for systemic risk using stock returns
If the calculated p-value (attained level of significance) is larger than the chosen threshold level of significance, then the null hypothesis is chosen.
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Therefore, the authors rejected null hypothesis (H5).
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Our null hypothesis effectively becomes 'there is no true difference [greater than or equal to] 10 bpm between the groups'.
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Some p-values even show strong evidence against the null hypothesis for they fall between 0.
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In model (2), the maintained null hypothesis is that [delta] = 0 against the alternative hypothesis of [delta] < 0.
Is the natural unemployment rate hypothesis valid for the United States? Evidence from recent unit root tests
It is also worth noting that even though the error-correction term has been incorporated in all the causality equations, only the equations where the null hypothesis of no cointegration is rejected will be estimated with an error-correction term (see also Narayan and Smyth, 2006; Morley, 2006; Odhiambo, 2009a).
Is tourism development an engine for economic growth? The Zambian experience

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