null hypothesis

Examples of hypothesis

hypothesis
As well, qualitative research is frequently used in psychology as a way of generating informed hypotheses for a given topic.
The phonetic analysis further bolstered the hypothesis that he added -ed endings according to a pseudo-suffixation strategy.
Within the psychological tradition, hypothesis-testing models traditionally assume the former.
In conjunction, these properties of social-psychological research have impeded the development of theories with explanatory power and the ability to generate novel and nontrivial hypotheses.
Therefore, with this easier criterion, the sequence from visual perspective taking to pronoun acquisition was reversed, contradicting our first two hypotheses.
To investigate these hypotheses, we defined a number of regions that have been identified as part of the social brain network in adults.
The findings are consistent with the hypothesis that weaknesses in specific phonemic representations linger even after children can articulate the specific phonemes accurately.
The representational flexibility of the hypothesis space approach demands that the complexity of the representations be controlled.
It is clear that some quite abstract robot representations have usefully tested some quite specific biological hypotheses.
Here these hypotheses are replaced by the assumption that f is a nice diffeomorphism in between the critical points.
Distinguishing between these two alternative hypotheses has important implications for the behaviour of political parties.
This test did not reject the hypothesis of orthogonality so the estimation was done through a random effects model rather than a fixed effects model.
According to this hypothesis, neither random errors nor morphologically and syntactically more complex structures would be expected.
Furthermore, we make the hypothesis that the radiation source is optically thin.
The adjustment cost hypothesis reduces the elasticity of capital supply.
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