Alternative Hypothesis
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-32833-1_4
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An alternative hypothesis is the hypothesis which differs from the hypothesis being tested.
The alternative hypothesis is usually denoted by H1.
HISTORY
See hypothesis and hypothesis testing.
MATHEMATICAL ASPECTS
During the hypothesis testing of a parameter of a population, the null hypothesis is presented in the following way:
$$ H_0\colon\enskip\theta =\theta _0\:, $$
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REFERENCE
- 1.Lehmann, E.I., Romann, S.P.: Testing Statistical Hypothesis, 3rd edn. Springer, New York (2005)Google Scholar
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