"examine a hypothesis" is correct and usable in written English.
You could use it when referring to investigating a theoretical idea or question. For example, "The research team was tasked with examining a hypothesis about the effects of climate change on the polar bear population."
Our study was specifically designed to examine a hypothesis that the risk of new onset diabetes was associated with statin potency.
This study represents opportunistic secondary use of high-quality data from well-conducted randomised trials to examine a hypothesis about one possible cause of socioeconomic inequalities in cancer survival in the general population.
Our analytic methods allowed us to examine a hypothesis previously untested at the genetic level - namely that both high and low serotonergic activity genotypes (e.g., 5HTTLPR) exert risk for ADHD symptoms.
Based on field observations, we analytically examined a hypothesis of grazing optimization in which herbivory improves the photosynthetic ability of individual plants.
This study examines a hypothesis that motorcyclists with a history of traffic offences will make riskier driving decisions and engage in more risk-taking behavior because of poor response inhibition, accentuated by the behavioral-impairment effect of impulsivity.
Some researchers have been examining a hypothesis that Japanese masu salmon are infected with the plerocercoid not in freshwater but in the sea during their migration through the Sea of Okhotsk, possibly through another intermediate host that links the freshwater copepod and the wild salmon at sea (14 ).
This reconstituted form of the enzyme, formed from separately purified polypeptides, allowed us to examine a detailed hypothesis for regulation of the ATase that resulted from prior studies.
Here, we examine a new hypothesis to determine whether EBS use (overall, by number of EBS types, or by specific type used) is associated with HRQOL, fatigue, or 15 hormone-related symptoms among breast cancer survivors who had survived an average of 30 months after their first primary in situ or invasive breast cancer diagnosis.
Community studies that assess trauma exposure across different types of traumatic events should be more adequate to examine a dose-effect hypothesis.
Only one other study has recently used administrative data to examine such a hypothesis [ 8].
Utilizing heart attack procedures as the study context, we examine a set of hypotheses based on a panel dataset consisted of 201 hospitals from 2005 to 2011 in the state of Florida.
