Hypothesis
- Hypothesis
- means a working statement
- things that are expected to be true — some kind of historical or existing expected value.
- The null hypothesis
- The word “null” can be thought of as “no change”.
- With the null hypothesis, you get what you expect, from a historical point of view.
- The alternate hypothesis
- an alternative to the null.
- For example, if your null is “I’m going to win up to $1000” then your alternate is “I’m going to win more than $1000.”
- Basically, you’re looking at whether there’s enough change (with the alternate hypothesis) to be able to reject the null hypothesis.
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