Sentences with phrase «actually test the hypothesis»

«I am an amazing experimental model because if you put robots below me, we can actually test hypotheses,» Herr says.

Not exact matches

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

This has been done for that exact hypothesis again and again and again throughout history, and every time it's actually been tested, no evidence has been found.

Test hypotheses to see what we actually know and what we don't actually know.

You can actually simulate and test hypotheses for different diseases.

I've run certain clinical trials but mostly at this point partner with some of my clinical colleagues to test the hypotheses generated in the lab in the clinic, in actual patients, and then actually try to analyze tumors from those patients to see whether the patterns that we identified in the laboratory in fact hold true in patients.

The definition illustrates why the concept makes even very smart people reach for their liquor cabinets: «In statistical hypothesis testing, the p - value is the probability of obtaining a test statistic at least as extreme as the one that was actually observed, assuming that the null hypothesis is true.»

«We wanted to test the hypothesis that these various stimulation sites are actually different spots within the same brain network,» explains Fox.

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.

All you can really do with data from an observational study is form a hypothesis, which must then be tested in randomized, controlled trials, to ferret out the truth about whether or not x actually causes y.

This remains unknown, and until we actually produce significant studies in humans to test the hypothesis, it remains an intriguing hypothesis, but unfortunately, one without support.

We tested the hypothesis that this classification system may actually increase the attractiveness of games for children younger than the age rating.

Spencer's claim of low sensitivity and negative feedbacks is based on this test, which is actually a test of models» ability to reproduce ENSO, and based on his internal variability hypothesis, which as noted above, Dessler's paper has also put to rest.

On the other hand, it would be a good test of intellectual rigor to actually have to make a statable, testable hypothesis rather than spend eternity picking holes in others».

IMO this is actually something that confuses many people including many professional scientists: The experimental (or observational) designs (and resulting data) that are most useful for hypothesis testing on the one hand, versus estimation, prediction and forecasting on the other, are frequently very different.

Judith is right, «warmest» year is much less important than would be (but missing) validation of IPCC conclusion (actually hypothesis begging testing) that «the global mean temperatures will > 2oC in the next 100 years.

Actually a computer model is not even a test of a hypothesis.

During the summer of 2002, he said, his friend Neil Young had donated his sailing schooner The Ragland which George and a team of researchers had used to test their hypothesis by actually putting iron into the ocean to see what happened.

One of the professors I spoke with actually did some of his own tests with the two methods based on a hypothesis that the cloth sacks, when wet on the outside, would be subject to evaporation and would be less insulated than the plastic buckets.

Also this is no different in hypothesis testing, it is quite routine to use a null hypothesis that we know from the outset is not true, for instance «the coin is unbiased» or «this is a sample from a normal distribution» (which is only actually true asymptotically).

Those with a good grasp of statistics will know that is becase the test has very little statistical power (the probability of rejecting the null hypothesis when it actually is false).

In one aspect, however, the case provided an opportunity to test the writer's hypothesis that the Alie court called on parties and counsel to present expert evidence to show when damage actually started to occur, for the purpose of allocating insurer responsibility.