Sentences with phrase «based hypothesis testing»

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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.

If you think changing specific elements could enhance your design, create another version based on your hypothesis and run an A / B test to see if there is any improvement in checkout rates with the new design.

Fama tested and popularized investing strategies based upon the efficient market hypothesis.

The evidence is simply overwhelming and of various different types: the fossil record, the genetic code, experimental confirmations, structures in living organisms which are of no current use but once were, faulty «designs» that are explained by «blind evolution» but that no sentient being would create, predictions that are tested based one the hypothesis it has occurred etc..

I have a lot of faith in science, not in the unscientific assumption that atheists make that reality is purely mechanistic, but in the procedures of testing hypotheses, questioning assumptions, measuring results, replicating experiments, and in general debating and persuading based on actual evidence.

Theories are revised and improved based on the results of testing hypotheses.

Test / Experiment Data can only Accept or Reject a certain null hypothesis based on set criteria.

Based on the verbal and nonverbal data that can be acquired in therapy, the therapist must continually test out various hypotheses as to the real nature of the patient's illness in an attempt to help the patient better cope with his or her world.

One can never test an individual hypothesis conclusively in a «crucial experiment»; for if a deduction is not confirmed experimentally, one can not be sure which one, from among the many assumptions on which the deduction was based, was in error.

The effect of all this is to throw into relief the results, and especially the theological results, of the work done on the basis of a given hypothesis of gospel interrelationships as the only effective test of the validity of that hypothesis.

They tested their hypothesis by selecting 600 babies deemed high risk for peanut allergies, and giving half Bamba on a regular basis, while the other half avoided peanut - based foods altogether.

MatGB, Well, yes, it may be consistent within that worldview, but the reality - based community is allowed to see whether we have any information to test the hypothesis before we implement it on the basis of these very confident assertions.

In a nutshell, here's how the model works, based on a general description provided by the Center for Open Science's (COS's) Open Science Framework (OSF): Before researchers even begin the experiments, they submit a manuscript presenting a clear hypothesis that they plan to test and their proposed experimental methods and analyses.

A major focus of my research is on developing new technologies, based on hypothesis - driven, targeted mass spectrometry, for relieving this bottleneck to testing potential new blood - based diagnostics for detection of cancer.

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

His theories were dismissed as «world - bluffing Jewish physics» by some prominent German physicists, who claimed to practice «true» German science based on observations of the natural world and hypotheses that could be tested in a laboratory.

First author Professor Martin Hrabe de Angelis, Director of Institute of Experimental Genetics at the Helmholtz Zentrum München, who invented the mouse clinic concept, said: «Our findings with regard to the genes examined are now available to the scientific community as a valid data set, which can be downloaded free of charge from the IMPC (International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium) website, and form an excellent basis on which we and other research groups can develop and test new hypotheses.»

On the basis of recent insights into the characteristics of conscious and unconscious thought, we tested the hypothesis that simple choices (such as between different towels or different sets of oven mitts) indeed produce better results after conscious thought, but that choices in complex matters (such as between different houses or different cars) should be left to unconscious thought.

«We thought this was a very interesting set up and when we tested these two competing hypotheses in this adoptive - based research design, we found there was no association between parenting and the child's intelligence later in life once we accounted for genetic influences,» Beaver said.

«It may be, though, that long - term exposure to air pollution makes people more susceptible to ALRI on a routine basis, although additional studies will be required to test this hypothesis.»

«Working with TACC through XSEDE and using supercomputers allowed us to test a hypothesis, and apply physical process based models to coastal areas,» Hill said.

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.

Second, this Research Framework should not be used to restrict alternative approaches to hypothesis testing that do not employ biomarkers... biomarker - based research should not be considered a template for all research into age - related cognitive impairment and dementia.»

Heiko Woith and colleagues at the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences say scientists must determine whether the link between the animal behavior and the earthquake is based on clearly defined rules (such as the animal's distance from earthquakes of a certain magnitude), whether the animal behavior has ever been observed and not followed by an earthquake, whether there is a statistical testing hypothesis in place to examine the evidence, and whether the animal population is a healthy, among other questions.

Finally, Pollard wants to close the loop by incorporating code - writing approaches, such as genome editing using CRISPR - based approaches and synthetic biology, which are needed to test and validate hypotheses and could also provide novel therapies.

Here, we tested the hypothesis that oxidative stress in the fetal heart and vasculature underlies the molecular basis through which prenatal hypoxia contributes to the developmental programming of cardiac and endothelial dysfunction.

In the first part of our project, we will test the hypothesis that our imaging system, which combines PET and a new form of MRI that I invented called diffusion basis spectrum imaging (DBSI), can reliably detect and measure the severity of white matter damage and inflammation.

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

These decisions will be based on many factors such as vaccine potency and the ability to further test the hypotheses generated by the RV144 trials.

Scientific inquiry involves the development and testing of hypotheses based on a systematic collection and analysis of data acquired through observations, experiments, and computer simulations.

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

Our best hypotheses for optimal health should be based a historic and prehistoric dietary perspective on food and sunshine and tested based on real food intake and sunshine exposure and not on refined supplement intake.

Luckily we live in a times that are yielding remarkable insights in brain science via fMRI's and at the same time, web - based technology makes it possible to test hypotheses rapidly.

This vital assistance helps community - based teams build their own internal capacity to develop intervention strategies and materials, specify hypotheses to be tested, conduct rigorous evaluations, participate in a shared data library that serves all FOI projects, and be well - positioned for scalability if their intervention is found to be effective.

Data science Enthusiast seeking for data based experimentation & hypothesis testing based on strong behavioral economics, altering the way things work in business & society!

«I particularly object to the testing of sharp null hypotheses when there is no plausible basis for believing the null is true.

However that is a statistical non-sequitur, based on a poor understanding of frequentist hypothesis testing, unless the test can be shown to have adequate statistical power (which seems never to be mentioned by those claiming a pause in warming).

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.

Perhaps the real division needs to be to create a subject which is the application of climate science — to create clear (melted ice) between climate science which is based on the scientific methodology and the null hypothesis and «climate prediction» where the «best» predictions are made based on the balance of evidence but there is no pretence that these predictions have or even can be tested (except by comparison to what happens... which I have to point out isn't climate «science's» / forecasters strong card!)

My view is that the physical climate science related to AGW can not be presented well on the basis of hypothesis testing, because there are no specific precise hypotheses that summarize the relevant scientific knowledge.

See Einstein fer this) There are varied means ter discovery and what counts is an honest quest based on critical testing, seeking not ter fool yrself and holding hypotheses, (guesses) provisionally, there be black swans out there and we are frail, frail, frail.

I think this is the way science makes progress, hypothesis, test, revise and retest, based on observable read time data fit of the hypothesis.

And, anyway, a science truth is so not because the IPCC, the Royal Society or the Minister for Science asserts it to be so, but because it is based upon a hypothesis that has survived repeated testing by many independent scientists.»

Although powerful journals like Nature and Science advocated Pounds» climate hypothesis and persistently maligned the disease hypotheses, and funds were continuously diverted to test Pounds» ever - changing climate hypotheses, only Laurance's 1996 hypothesis of a rapidly spreading novel disease has stood the test of time, simply because it was based on rigorous science.

Based on data from the European Social Survey for Austria, Belgium, France, Norway, and Switzerland, three different sets of explanations are tested: (1) hypotheses stressing economic determinants, that is, the fear of wage pressure and competition over welfare benefits; (2) hypotheses emphasizing cultural determinants, that is, the perception of immigration as a threat to national identity; and (3) hypotheses focusing on social alienation, that is, dissatisfaction with the way the country's democracy works and the nonintegration into intermediary networks (trade unions).

Based on the most recent papers we might choose the optimistic view that the theories are finally staring to converge to something that can be tested rather than presented only as hypotheses.

Standard frequentist tests of a null hypothesis based on a Gaussian observation are also unaffected by such a monotonic transformation.

We propose here a new statistical approach to climate change detection and attribution that is based on additive decomposition and simple hypothesis testing.

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.

Based on the fact that water expands as it gets warmer, NASA scientists at the Jet Propulsion Lab were able to test this hypothesis of «missing» warming hiding in the deep ocean.