Sentences with phrase «alternate hypotheses came»

My understanding is that the notion of null versus alternate hypotheses came from the statistical testing field where in general a null hypothesis is an assertion that some phenomenon will be constrained to a subset, often a subspace, of the total universe of possible observations.

Not exact matches

Physical science is highly constrained by what is known about energy budgets, paleoclimate and radiative transfer in gases, and alternate hypotheses are hard to come by as the skeptics well know by now after a decade of trying.