Sentence examples for were hypothesis from inspiring English sources
noun
Used loosely, a tentative conjecture explaining an observation, phenomenon or scientific problem that can be tested by further observation, investigation and/or experimentation. As a scientific term of art, see the attached quotation. Compare to theory, and quotation given there.
"Maybe if you turn it over and put it on the other end!" "Let's put all three on!" They were hypothesis machines.
The null hypotheses in this test were: Hypothesis 1 (null): there was no difference in the detection distances under different road lighting intensities.
Nevertheless, Kohlschütter's analyses were hypothesis driven, as he discarded almost 50% of the data points to derive what he called an "idealized curve of sleep".
After demonstrating during the first three years of the competition that most, if not all, of the clinical innovations were hypothesis based, the Bench-to-Bedside student leadership proposed to the University of Utah School of Medicine curriculum committee a change to the scholarly activity requirement to include clinical innovation.
All analyses were hypothesis driven.
All analyses were hypothesis based and were specified a priori.
However, because they were hypothesis-driven, they only assessed a fraction of the brain parenchyma and may have missed abnormalities in regions of the brain which were not examined.
3/69 were significant (∼4%), 6/69 were hypothesis-related (∼9%), and the probability that a single pathway would be both significant and hypothesis-related is (9% * 4% = 0.4%).
Furthermore, because the analyses were hypothesis-driven, correction for multiple testing may be neglected to a greater extent.
These data were hypothesis-generating in nature, and P-values should be interpreted in the exploratory sense.
As many of our prediction models were hypothesis-generating, our results will need validating in other experimental studies.
