Definition of null hypothesis in US English:
null hypothesis
nounnəl haɪˈpɑθəsəsnəl hīˈpäTHəsəs
(in a statistical test) the hypothesis that there is no significant difference between specified populations, any observed difference being due to sampling or experimental error.
Example sentencesExamples
- Based on the statistical results, the null hypothesis is rejected for all variables.
- These analyses qualitatively or explicitly test null hypotheses of homogeneity of allele frequencies between or among populations.
- Using their method requires the ability to draw samples from an approximation to the joint distribution of the test statistics when all null hypotheses are true.
- We performed significance tests of the null hypothesis of constant population size for both data sets.
- It then reviews demographic differences within regions and tests a series of null hypotheses proposing no significant differences between regions based on the demographic factors.