ALL meanings of alternative hypothesis
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A a - noun alternative hypothesis the hypothesis that given data do not conform with a given null hypothesis: the null hypothesis is accepted only if its probability exceeds a predetermined significance level 3
- noun alternative hypothesis (in the statistical testing of a hypothesis) the hypothesis to be accepted if the null hypothesis is rejected. 1
- noun alternative hypothesis (statistics) A rival hypothesis to the null hypothesis, whose likelihoods are compared by a statistical hypothesis test. 0