Sentences with phrase «simplest hypothesis»
The phrase "simplest hypothesis" means to come up with the most basic and straightforward explanation or guess for something without adding unnecessary complexity. Full definition
We propose here a new statistical approach to climate change detection and attribution that is based on additive decomposition and simple hypothesis testing.
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«The foundation of P4 medicine is the idea that in the near future we will have the tools to reduce enormously complex data from 300 million Americans to simple hypotheses about health and disease for each individual,» he says.
«It's a very ingenious and pretty simple hypothesis,» says bacterial geneticist Ferric Fang of the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver.
The attempt to restrict the realm of possibility by some simple hypothesis is probably connected with a certain element, deeply rooted in our human nature, which could be called «the quest for conceivability» and which is a version of the quest for cognitive security.
(iii) the seeking of the simplest hypothesis to explain the causal relationships in the data and associated phenomena.
That there is an omnipotent God is a simpler hypothesis than the hypothesis that there is a God who has such and such limited power....
But in the last decade, the research on the side effects of epidural pain relief have begun to look beyond the simple hypothesis of whether epidural is effective in reducing pain (Answer: IT IS!)
When we started, it was just a simple hypothesis based on a correlation, and correlations are, of course, something that could be quite dubious, and they could go away if you get better data.
«The studies of the Koenig group have not yet sufficiently excluded a simpler hypothesis that can explain apparent bird population «declines» during cicada emergence years — acoustic interference of loud cicada choruses with bird songs that are used by observers to locate birds,» Marshall says.
These inconsistencies can be resolved by the simple hypothesis that placental mammals originated in Gondwanaland, not Laurasia, says mammalogist Tim Flannery, director of the South Australia Museum in Adelaide.
Could the reason be that most mothers are right - handed and need that hand free?Jessie M. H. offers a simpler hypothesis...
Once they had a question they wanted to test, they would write a simple hypothesis: Red apples will taste sour and green apples will taste sweet.
They work on a simple hypothesis, that history repeats itself, and you'll find many a rich trader who agrees wholeheartedly with that statement.
The inferential gain is particularly substantial when a simple hypothesis testing procedure is implemented.
While much has been written about global climate change over many years, the basic aspects of the issue haven't changed; we are asked to forget things we once knew and ignore the simplest hypothesis that the earth's climate is ever changing.
Here we have a simple hypothesis that can make a correct prediction based on empirical data.
We also tested for the effect of extreme temperatures on the proportion of male births using a temperature anomaly series [18] and additionally we considered two simpler hypotheses: that the monthly numbers of births, and the monthly proportions of male births, vary in a seasonal manner [16].