Sentences with phrase «about hypothesis testing»

Of perhaps secondary importance, «not inconsistent» and «is consistent» carries slightly different connotations important when thinking about hypothesis testing.

The NIPCC doesn't understand some stuff about hypothesis testing.

Not exact matches

What are some ways that I can go about testing to see if that hypothesis is actually correct or not?»

But the tests that I've found most fruitful are the qualitative ones, where we run a pilot based on a hypothesis about what people want.

The gaming company Zynga split its analytics team into two to become more proactive about analytics; while one team does the conventional reporting, the other «tests hypotheses and creates models using statistical and analytical methods.»

The good thing about launching a consumer - facing startup is that false hypotheses are exposed very quickly if you test them correctly.

Hypotheses about everything from customer relationships to value propositions to important partners must be tested, all to answer questions such as «What is the product?»

Testing hypotheses and trading arguments about theories often works better than planting a flag and asking team members to try to topple you from opinion mountain.

As a founder you are testing a series of hypotheses about all the pieces of the business model: Who are the customers / users?

Science is about evidence and testing hypotheses, not blind belief without a shred of evidence.

Scientists have lots of hypothesis about what might or might not have caused the Big Bang, but so far none of them have been tested.

The theory of evolution has stood the test of many hypotheses and is the best explanation for all that we have learned about the details of the world that science has exposed.

I read through the book again today, and am developing a hypothesis about the nature of the book, but will need to think on it for quite some time, and read through the book several more times to test it.

Assuming a god hypothesis doesn't do us any good unless we can begin to query the universe about that hypothesis by measurement (testing smaller, supporting hypotheses and performing experiments).

It appears that hypothesis is about to be tested yet again.

Video of Adam, which can originate hypotheses about yeast genes and their functions, design experiments to test the ideas and conduct the work.

That in turn allowed them to test different hypotheses about MHGs and BSPs — for example, whether belief in MHGs precedes (and presumably then stabilizes) the emergence of political complexity.

That should let them «test various hypotheses about why the Challenger Deep behaves so strangely,» says expedition chief scientist Sun Jinlong, a marine geophysicist at the South China Sea Institute of Oceanology in Guangzhou, China.

«We'd like to develop the resources so that people can quickly test hypotheses about the human genome by synthesising new versions.»

But it's one of the few ways we have to start assembling hypotheses about prehistoric people's beliefs and culture, in the hope that we can one day test them with newer scientific techniques.

Study co-author and current Managing Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History Professor Russell Gray states, «This study shows the power of computational phylogenetic methods to test causal hypotheses about human history.»

Michael Rose would like to test his hypothesis about ageing and diet by studying people in Papua New Guinea (6...

For the first time, domestication researchers had a hypothesis about the link between tameness and physical traits that could really be put to the scientific test.

Michael Rose would like to test his hypothesis about ageing and diet by studying people in Papua New Guinea (6 August, p 42).

The import of optogenetics for consciousness is that it allows testing of a specific hypothesis about the neural basis of consciousness.

It also provides a number of hypotheses about Alaskan tectonics and rock deformation that we can test, using the Alaska Range as our laboratory.»

They can then be used to test drug interventions or to test hypotheses about the causes of disease.

However, the biologists in Bergen are about to test another hypothesis, namely that nests with chicks from multiple fathers are less vulnerable to attack by predators.

«We decided to test that hypothesis about Type 1 cells,» says Jain.

But that is a hypothesis the new study could not test, because the researchers did not have information about the sex of the women's offspring.

You could learn more about acids, bases and the pH scale, make a hypothesis about how well you think different acids and / or bases will dye the eggs, and then repeat this activity to test your hypothesis.

«The brain actively creates experiences and tests hypotheses about the world — it doesn't mind if your hands suddenly turn into rubber.»

Putting the data into the CTD framework helps investigators develop and test hypotheses about how drugs might cause adverse events.

They test their hypotheses about the universe by developing mathematical models that describe the underlying complex physical processes and run them on high - performance computers trying to reproduce the evolution of the Universe over billions of years.

Scientists at Georgia State University have rewired the neural circuit of one species and given it the connections of another species to test a hypothesis about the evolution of neural circuits and behavior.

«We hope to test hypotheses about the role these crabs play in the productivity of the seamount,» says Pineda.

The future will be using these tools combined with large shared data sets to test fundamental hypotheses about the evolution and distribution of plants and animals,» says Dr. Laurence J. Dorr, Chair of the Smithsonian Department of Botany and co-author of the study.

This data produced a plot with a series of curves, each of which tracked how the organism changed in the size and number of units with age, enabling the researchers to produce a computer model to replicate growth in the organism and test previous hypotheses about where and how growth occurred.

A group of research scientists from the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) in Trieste used a simulation model that is far more accurate than previously used, and carried out an experiment to test a hypothesis about the behaviour of hydrogen that is splitting the scientific community.

Just like we test hypotheses about the functions of genes in genetic networks by knocking them out and replacing them, we need methods to selectively remove or inhibit specific microbes or metabolisms in microbial networks to determine their roles,» Brodie added.

By focusing on the middle scale, researchers would finally be able to test hypotheses about the physiological basis of mind.

«My team and I have been thinking about this problem for some time, and we have started collecting preliminary data to test our unique hypothesis.

The anthropogenic hypothesis passes the test of conforming to all we know about the physics of climate.

Future data and analysis may test this hypothesis and reveal clues about the process causing this activity.

Distinguished Scientist Award and Lecture: Jacqueline Crawley Laboratory of Behavioral Neuroscience, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD, USA Mouse Models of Autism to Test Hypotheses about Causes and to Discover Effective Treatments

In the last 10 years we've been working really hard at seeing the photoreceptors and studying other retina conditions but we're now going to focus really hard on trying to visualize the ganglion cells and the vasculature that serves the ganglion cells so that we can actually test some of the most contested hypotheses about glaucoma.

We develop computational models of neuromuscular systems such as the arm to test hypotheses about how the brain controls voluntary movement, and how motor learning is achieved.

But it's also based upon hypotheses about life's viability in extreme environments that we're as yet unable to test.»

To test the hypothesis, they carefully analyzed the GPI and Hubble observations, revealing three properties about the planet consistent with a large dusty ring or shroud surrounding it.

But since there hasn't been much research about how happy and unhappy people value societal events (as opposed to personal events), they wanted to test their hypothesis — using the Olympics as a theoretical scenario.