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A hypothesis is a proposition that is consistent with known data, but has been neither verified nor shown to be false.
In statistics, a hypothesis (sometimes called a statistical hypothesis) refers to a statement on which hypothesis testing will be based. Particularly important statistical hypotheses include the null hypothesis and alternative hypothesis.
In symbolic logic, a hypothesis is the first part of an implication (with the second part being known as the predicate).
In general mathematical usage, "hypothesis" is roughly synonymous with "conjecture."
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Alternative Hypothesis, Bourget's Hypothesis, Chinese Hypothesis, Conjecture, Continuum Hypothesis, Hypothesis Testing, Monster-Barring,Nested Hypothesis, Null Hypothesis, Postulate, Proposition,Riemann Hypothesis, Schinzel's Hypothesis, Souslin's Hypothesis Explore this topic in the MathWorld classroom
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