The phrase "an initial hypothesis" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when introducing a preliminary assumption or educated guess that will be tested or explored further in research or analysis.
Example: "Before conducting the experiment, we formulated an initial hypothesis regarding the relationship between temperature and reaction rate."
Alternatives: "a preliminary hypothesis" or "a starting hypothesis".
"Typically, the clinician generates an initial hypothesis merely from a patient's age, sex, appearance, presenting complaints -- and race".
A knowledgeable US official told the Guardian that while the federal investigation was in the earliest stages, an initial hypothesis regarding the shooter's motive leaned closer to a hate crime than an act of terrorism.
A US official, however, told the Guardian that while an unfolding federal investigation was in the earliest stages, an initial hypothesis regarding the shooter's motive leaned closer to a hate crime than an act of terrorism.
Errors can potentially emerge from a practice called "data dredging": when an initial hypothesis doesn't pan out, the researcher will scan the data for something that looks like a story.
This is addressed in the current work by using a two-step procedure composed of an initial hypothesis generation and a subsequent hypothesis verification.
There is defined an initial hypothesis, which consists in assumption that it is possible to determine the contact forces in all other guide idler rolls according to detection of the contact force in one guide idler roll.
Option A: The initial hypothesis is likely to be correct, i.e. the MRCA of the experimentally annotated sequences is where it likely first evolved.
Sequences of values we generate by such revision rules, starting with a given initial hypothesis, are revision sequences.
It hypothesizes three interacting processing systems at each stage of the cortical hierarchy: The A-system (middle cortical layers) accomplishes fast bottom-up processing where the first spike wave traveling up the cortical hierarchy can activate a coarse initial hypothesis at each level.
Although Baker neglected other important factors favoring or limiting the evolution of selfing [ 8], his idea has been a useful initial hypothesis for many studies on colonizing species.
As a result, our initial hypothesis is confirmed in four out of five cases (Figure 14).
