alternative hypothesis

English

Noun

alternative hypothesis (plural alternative hypotheses)

(statistics) A rival hypothesis to the null hypothesis. Their likelihoods are compared by a statistical hypothesis test.

Related terms

null hypothesis

Translations

hypothesis

Czech: alternativní hypotéza f
Finnish: vaihtoehtohypoteesi
Galician: hipótese alternativa f
German: Alternativhypothese (de) f

Kazakh: баламалы болжам (balamalı boljam)
Portuguese: hipótese alternativa f
Romanian: ipoteză alternativă
Russian: альтернати́вная гипо́теза f (alʹternatívnaja gipóteza)

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