alternative hypothesis

English

Noun

alternative hypothesis (plural alternative hypotheses)

1. (statistics) A rival hypothesis to the null hypothesis. Their likelihoods are compared by a statistical hypothesis test.

Related terms

• null hypothesis

Translations

hypothesis

• Czech: alternativní hypotéza f
• Finnish: vastahypoteesi (fi), vaihtoehtohypoteesi
• Galician: hipótese alternativa f
• German: Alternativhypothese (de) f
• Kazakh: баламалы болжам (balamaly boljam)
• Portuguese: hipótese alternativa f
• Romanian: ipoteză alternativă f
• Russian: альтернати́вная гипо́теза f (alʹternatívnaja gipóteza)