Sentence examples for several competing hypotheses from inspiring English sources

"At this point there are several competing hypotheses for his illness," Mr. Giuliani said.

In the recent literature, several competing hypotheses have been advanced to explain the stylized fact of declining contributions in repeated public goods experiments.

Rather than the traditional null hypothesis testing approach, they have adopted an approach called model selection, in which several competing hypotheses are simultaneously confronted with data.

Economics, sociology, and psychology have presented several competing hypotheses to explain the impact of sibling sex composition on individual educational attainment, but the evidence is mixed and few studies are from China.

Several competing hypotheses exist trying to explain the cause of the disease: The genetic heritability of Alzheimer's disease (and memory components thereof), based on reviews of twin and family studies, range from 49% to 79%.

In cases where basic models are insufficient, ecologists may adopt different kinds of statistical methods, such as the Akaike information criterion, or use models that can become mathematically complex as "several competing hypotheses are simultaneously confronted with the data".

The effort to reconstruct the evolutionary interrelationships of these eight major lineages of Mollusca has resulted in several competing phylogenetic hypotheses, but to date none of the interrelationships could be unambiguously resolved for the above-mentioned class-level taxa (Fig.  1; see also [ 1]).

This paper pits neoclassical theory against prospect theory by investigating several clean tests of the competing hypotheses.

However, a statistical approach will not always be able to discern among competing hypotheses since several can lead to the same statistical distributions.

In more abbreviated notation, we will represent this same model as: <img src="http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/asset?id=info?doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0012916.e009.PNG" class= inline-graphic"/> For each of the two datasets, several candidate models were compared as competing hypotheses.

The fact that one can write several models into a single MML program allows one to compare competing hypotheses (models).