NULL HYPOTHESIS


Meaning of NULL HYPOTHESIS in English

Function: noun

Date: 1935

: a statistical hypothesis to be tested and accepted or rejected in favor of an alternative specifically : the hypothesis that an observed difference (as between the means of two samples) is due to chance alone and not due to a systematic cause

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