alternative hypothesis

noun

1. (in the statistical testing of a hypothesis) the hypothesis to be accepted if the null hypothesis is rejected.

alternative hypothesis

noun

1. See null hypothesis, hypothesis testing
   statistics 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 Compare hypothesis testing null hypothesis

Example Sentences

An alternative hypothesis was suggested to me years ago by a veteran China-watcher.

From The Daily Beast

No alternative hypothesis prevails, mere desultory criticism of the internal intricacies being quite inadequate.

From Project Gutenberg

Then we proposed an alternative hypothesis, logically simpler, though more difficult from the moral point of view.

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Podmore thinks them to have been unduly suggestible and offers hallucinations as an alternative hypothesis.

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Ashley points out the difficulties involved in this theory, and suggests an alternative hypothesis.

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An alternative hypothesis is given by the idea of complex ions.

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