Sentences with phrase «hypotheses tested via»

Prevention effects moderate the association of 5 - HTTLPR and youth risk behavior initiation: gene x environment hypotheses tested via a randomized prevention design

Not exact matches

To test this hypothesis, we isolated progeny generated via selfing α - α unisexual reproduction and subjected them to phenotypic and genotypic analyses.

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.

Fama was referring to the joint hypothesis problem in which any statistical test of market efficiency is simultaneously a test of the asset pricing model that is used to measure efficiency and vice versa, meaning that neither market efficiency nor a given asset pricing model can be definitively established (or rejected) via statistical testing.

I thought I knew what «science» was about: the crafting of hypotheses that could be tested and refined through observation via studies that were challenged and replicated by the broader community until the hypothesis is generally accepted or rejected by the broader community.

The only way I can think of to properly test and support any hypothesis either way is via modelling, basically solving the hydrodynamic equations for toy planets with and without upper atmosphere cooling.

In effect it would bring science closer to the Karl Popper view of the how science should progress via steps in hypotheses / testing.

Further, owing to the emphasis on forecasting, this community does not operate in the same way that atmospheric science researchers (outside the forecasting community) operate in terms of hypothesis testing etc., which is why I focused the article in terms of laying out the scientific method, fallacies, etc. (note all of the fallacies came from the hurricane forecasting community via the media; I included specific citations in the 2nd version of the paper, but this was also nixed).

NOTE: All residuals of test equations have been tested for normality via the Jarque - Bera test for normality (the p - value is reported as JB below), and in all cases the null hypothesis of normality is not rejected.

• Efficient in running hypothesis tests and statistical analysis manually as well as via SPSS software.

To test the main hypotheses, we examined decreases in attachment anxiety and avoidance in the experimental group with a paired samples t - test of the experimental group and compared change in attachment between groups via a mixed factorial ANOVA.

Although this could not be tested in the current study, given the theoretical importance of attachment security to child emotional functioning (e.g., Cassidy, 1994), as well as the well - established link between emotional dysregulation and childhood anxiety, another hypothesis is that attachment security relates to anxiety via children's emotional capacities, including children's emotion understanding and regulation.

Focus group method was deployed to collect the data via un-restricted non-probability sampling approach; data was quantified for evaluating the hypotheses via t - test of equality of means.