Look up: Hypothesis

1. hypothesis
   A concept or idea that can be falsified by various scientific methods.
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2. Hypothesis
   A refutable statement about one or a series of phenomena
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3. Hypothesis
   A prediction is constructed about economic or business behaviour which may be right or wrong.
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4. Hypothesis
   An idea, or an educated guess, about a given state of affairs, put forward as a basis for empirical testing.
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5. hypothesis
   [n] - a proposal intended to explain certain facts or observations 2. [n] - a tentative theory about the natural world
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6. Hypothesis
   an unverified statement of a relationship between variables
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7. Hypothesis
   See also Alternative hypothesis, H0, H1, Null hypothesis.
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8. Hypothesis
   A hypothesis is a statement of the expected relationship between or among the things being studied.
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9. Hypothesis
   A hypothesis is a proposed answer to a problem, or an explanation that accounts for a set of facts and that can be tested by further experimentation and observation. The results of experimentation provide evidence that may or may not support the hypothesis.
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10. hypothesis
    hypotheses. Compare with theory. A hypothesis is a conjecture designed to guide experimentation. Hypotheses are extremely useful in problem solving, and are essential in developing new theories.
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11. hypothesis
    setting up and testing hypotheses is an essential part of statistical inference.In order to formulate such a test,usually some theory has been put forward,either because it is believed to be true or because it is to be used as a basis for argument,but has not been proved,for example,claiming that a ...
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12. Hypothesis
    Hy·poth'e·sis noun ; plural Hypotheses . [ New Latin , from Greek ... foundation, supposition, from ... to place under, ... under + ... to put. See Hypo- , Thesis .] 1. A supposition; a proposition or principle whic...
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13. hypothesis
    <statistics> A supposition that appears to explain a group of phenomena and is advanced as a basis for further investigation, a proposition that is subject to proof or to an experimental or statistical test. ... (11 Jan 1998) ...
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14. hypothesis
    possibility noun a tentative theory about the natural world; a concept that is not yet verified but that if true would explain certain facts or phenomena; `a scientific hypothesis that survives experi...
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15. hypothesis
    noun a proposal intended to explain certain facts or observations
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16. hypothesis
    (hi-poth´ә-sis) a supposition that appears to explain a group of phenomena and is advanced as a bases for further investigation. alternative hypothesis the hypothesis that is formulated as an opposite to the null hypothesis in a statistical test. Lyon hypothesis ...
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17. Hypothesis
    • (n.) A supposition; a proposition or principle which is supposed or taken for granted, in order to draw a conclusion or inference for proof of the point in question; something not proved, but assumed for the purpose of argument, or to account for a fact or an occurrence; as, the hypothesis th...
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18. hypothesis
    (from the article `logic`) ...second area is model theory, which investigates the various structures about which formal theories can be constructed. Here the emphasis is on ... PC is often presented by what is known as the method of natural deduction. Essentially this consists of a set of rules for drawing conclusions from ... ...muc...
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19. hypothesis
    a supposition that appears to explain a group of phenomena and is advanced as a basis for further investigation; a proposition that is subject to proof or to an experimental or statistical test.
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20. hypothesis
    hypothesis 1. A tentative theory about the natural world; a concept that is not yet verified but that if true it would explain certain facts or phenomena. 2. A proposal intended to explain certain facts or observations. 3. A message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence. 4. Etymology...
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21. Hypothesis
    A tentative assumption that is made for the purpose of empirical scientific testing. A hypothesis becomes a theory when repeated testing and evidence suggests the hypothesis has a strong chance of being correct.
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22. Hypothesis
    In general, an assumption, a supposition, a conjecture, a postulate, a condition, an antecedent, a contingency, a possibility, a probability, a principle, a premiss, a ground or foundation, a tentative explanation, a probable cause, a theoretical situation, an academic question, a specific considera...
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23. Hypothesis
    Etymologically a hypothesis is a supposition, and the term is popularly used to denote something not proved, but assumed for the sake of argument. In scientific and philosophical usage the term hypothesis denotes either a probable theory of phenomena not yet fully explained, or a strictly scientific...
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24. hypothesis
    Type: Term Pronunciation: hī-poth′ĕ-sis Definitions: 1. A conjecture advanced for heuristic purposes, cast in a form that is amenable to confirmation or refutation by conducting of definable experiments and the critical assembly of empiric data; not to be confused with assumption, postulation, or unfocused speculation.  ...
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25. hypothesis
    In science, an idea concerning an event and its possible explanation. The term is one favoured by the followers of the philosopher Karl Popper, who argue that the merit of a scientific hypothesis lies in its ability to make testable predictions
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