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hypothesis — A conjecture advanced for heuristic purposes, cast in a form that is amenable to confirmation or refutation by the conductance of definable experiments and the critical assembly of empiric data; not to be confused with assumption, postulation, or … Medical dictionary
Statistical hypothesis testing — This article is about frequentist hypothesis testing which is taught in introductory statistics. For Bayesian hypothesis testing, see Bayesian inference. A statistical hypothesis test is a method of making decisions using data, whether from a… … Wikipedia
Null hypothesis — For the periodical, see Null Hypothesis: The Journal of Unlikely Science. The practice of science involves formulating and testing hypotheses, assertions that are capable of being proven false using a test of observed data. The null hypothesis… … Wikipedia
Alternative hypothesis — Main article: Statistical hypothesis testing In statistical hypothesis testing, the alternative hypothesis (or maintained hypothesis or research hypothesis) and the null hypothesis are the two rival hypotheses which are compared by a statistical… … Wikipedia
Cosmic censorship hypothesis — The weak and the strong cosmic censorship hypotheses are two mathematical conjectures about the structure of singularities arising in general relativity. Singularities that arise in the solutions of Einstein s equations are typically hidden… … Wikipedia
Random walk hypothesis — The random walk hypothesis is a financial theory stating that stock market prices evolve according to a random walk and thus the prices of the stock market cannot be predicted. It has been described as jibing with the efficient market hypothesis … Wikipedia
Ergodic hypothesis — In physics and thermodynamics, the ergodic hypothesis says that, over long periods of time, the time spent by a particle in some region of the phase space of microstates with the same energy is proportional to the volume of this region, i.e.,… … Wikipedia
Expected utility hypothesis — In economics, game theory, and decision theory the expected utility hypothesis is a theory of utility in which betting preferences of people with regard to uncertain outcomes (gambles) are represented by a function of the payouts (whether in… … Wikipedia
Life-cycle Income Hypothesis — Italian American Economist Franco Modigliani, winner of Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 1985, originated the Life cycle Income Hypothesis base on Irving Fisher s model of inter temporal choice. In Modigliani s Life cycle Hypothesis, or LCH… … Wikipedia
Binder parameter — The Binder parameter [K. Binder, Z. Phys. B 43, 119 (1981)] in statistical physics is used to identify phase transition points in numerical simulations. It is defined as the kurtosis of the order parameter. For example in spin glasses one defines … Wikipedia
statistics — /steuh tis tiks/, n. 1. (used with a sing. v.) the science that deals with the collection, classification, analysis, and interpretation of numerical facts or data, and that, by use of mathematical theories of probability, imposes order and… … Universalium
