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  2. Alternative hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    Two-tailed directional. A two-tailed directional alternative hypothesis is concerned with both regions of rejection of the sampling distribution. Non-directional. A non-directional alternative hypothesis is not concerned with either region of rejection; rather, it is only concerned that null hypothesis is not true.

  3. Bi-directional hypothesis of language and action - Wikipedia

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    The bi-directional hypothesis of language and action proposes that the sensorimotor and language comprehension areas of the brain exert reciprocal influence over one another. [1] This hypothesis argues that areas of the brain involved in movement and sensation, as well as movement itself, influence cognitive processes such as language ...

  4. Type I and type II errors - Wikipedia

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    The consistent application by statisticians of Neyman and Pearson's convention of representing "the hypothesis to be tested" (or "the hypothesis to be nullified") with the expression H 0 has led to circumstances where many understand the term "the null hypothesis" as meaning "the nil hypothesis" – a statement that the results in question have ...

  5. One- and two-tailed tests - Wikipedia

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    A two-tailed test applied to the normal distribution. A one-tailed test, showing the p-value as the size of one tail.. In statistical significance testing, a one-tailed test and a two-tailed test are alternative ways of computing the statistical significance of a parameter inferred from a data set, in terms of a test statistic.

  6. Unidirectionality hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    The hypothesis is not universally applicable, with some rare counterexamples appearing in unusual circumstances. The unidirectionality hypothesis does not claim that linguistic change will occur in any particular instance, only that if it does occur, it will be in the direction of lexical word to grammatical word and not the other way around.

  7. Hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    The hypothesis of Andreas Cellarius, showing the planetary motions in eccentric and epicyclical orbits. A hypothesis (pl.: hypotheses) is a proposed explanation for a phenomenon. A scientific hypothesis must be based on observations and make a testable and reproducible prediction about reality, in a process beginning with an educated guess or ...

  8. Textual entailment - Wikipedia

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    hypothesis: Giving money to a poor man has good consequences. An example of a negative TE (text contradicts hypothesis) is: text: If you help the needy, God will reward you. hypothesis: Giving money to a poor man has no consequences. An example of a non-TE (text does not entail nor contradict) is: text: If you help the needy, God will reward you.

  9. Language and thought - Wikipedia

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    The Sapir–Whorf hypothesis in linguistics states that the grammatical structure of a mother language influences the way we perceive the world. The hypothesis has been largely abandoned by linguists as it has found very limited experimental support, at least in its strong form, linguistic determinism.