Sentence examples for by testing a hypothesis from inspiring English sources

In this paper, we extend Levin and Ferrari's work by testing a hypothesis using statistical procedures.

The significance of any such causal effect can then be easily evaluated by testing a hypothesis that the sum of the parameters as shown above is different from zero.

Its significance was assessed by testing a null hypothesis of equality to zero for this coefficient.

Construct validity was assessed by testing a priori hypotheses.

Generally, as with construct validity, responsiveness is assessed by testing a priori hypotheses about the relationship of the changes in one measure to the changes in another (validated) measure, or with reference to a change in a gold standard (as with testing criterion validity).

The preliminary validity was evaluated by testing a priori hypotheses on the association between the observation instrument for diabetes-specific situations (observation during a diabetes-specific situation) and an observation instrument to assess generic parent child interaction [ 24] (observation during free play).

Discriminative validity was assessed by testing "a priori" hypotheses that the measure could distinguish patients who were at different clinical groups: (1) HIV/AIDS stages, (2) cellcountsounts, and (3) Duration of ART; and who had different health behaviors: (4) drug use and (5) alcohol use; and (6) who had suboptimal ART adherence [ 18, 24, 27, 33- 36].

By testing a number of hypotheses using structural equation modeling, the authors conclude that the antecedents and consequences of ICT diffusion in these functions vary.

The second aim of the study was to investigate the convergent and discriminant validity of the factor scales by testing a number of hypotheses concerning the question, how the factors that we have found are correlating.

d is generated by testing a number of null hypotheses, and is closely related to the fraction of these which are rejected.

The data were analysed first by testing a slope-equal-to-zero hypothesis to determine if covariates were needed in the model.