An Etymological Dictionary of Astronomy and Astrophysics
English-French-Persian

An assumed statement about the way a → random variable is distributed. A statistical hypothesis generally specifies the form of the → probability distribution or the values of the parameters of the distribution. The statement may be true or false. See also → null hypothesis.

→ statistical; → hypothesis.

A method of making decision between rejecting or not rejecting a → null hypothesis on the basis of a set of observations.

→ statistical; → hypothesis; → test.