"alternative hypothesis" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "alternative hypotheses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "alternative hypothesis (plural alternative hypotheses)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "name": "Statistics",
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            "Mathematics",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A rival hypothesis to the null hypothesis. Their likelihoods are compared by a statistical hypothesis test."
      ],
      "id": "en-alternative_hypothesis-en-noun-JUPRLAXu",
      "links": [
        [
          "statistics",
          "statistics"
        ],
        [
          "hypothesis",
          "hypothesis"
        ],
        [
          "null hypothesis",
          "null hypothesis"
        ],
        [
          "hypothesis test",
          "hypothesis test"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(statistics) A rival hypothesis to the null hypothesis. Their likelihoods are compared by a statistical hypothesis test."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "null hypothesis"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "mathematics",
        "sciences",
        "statistics"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "hypothesis",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "alternativní hypotéza"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "hypothesis",
          "word": "vastahypoteesi"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "hypothesis",
          "word": "vaihtoehtohypoteesi"
        },
        {
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "hypothesis",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "hipótese alternativa"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "hypothesis",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Alternativhypothese"
        },
        {
          "code": "kk",
          "lang": "Kazakh",
          "roman": "balamaly boljam",
          "sense": "hypothesis",
          "word": "баламалы болжам"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "hypothesis",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "hipótese alternativa"
        },
        {
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "hypothesis",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "ipoteză alternativă"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "alʹternatívnaja gipóteza",
          "sense": "hypothesis",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "альтернати́вная гипо́теза"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "alternative hypothesis"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "alternative hypothesis"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "alternative hypotheses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
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        "1": "alternative hypotheses"
      },
      "expansion": "alternative hypothesis (plural alternative hypotheses)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "null hypothesis"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A rival hypothesis to the null hypothesis. Their likelihoods are compared by a statistical hypothesis test."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "statistics",
          "statistics"
        ],
        [
          "hypothesis",
          "hypothesis"
        ],
        [
          "null hypothesis",
          "null hypothesis"
        ],
        [
          "hypothesis test",
          "hypothesis test"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(statistics) A rival hypothesis to the null hypothesis. Their likelihoods are compared by a statistical hypothesis test."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "mathematics",
        "sciences",
        "statistics"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "alternative hypothesis"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "hypothesis",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "alternativní hypotéza"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "hypothesis",
      "word": "vastahypoteesi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "hypothesis",
      "word": "vaihtoehtohypoteesi"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "hypothesis",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "hipótese alternativa"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "hypothesis",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Alternativhypothese"
    },
    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "balamaly boljam",
      "sense": "hypothesis",
      "word": "баламалы болжам"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "hypothesis",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "hipótese alternativa"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "hypothesis",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ipoteză alternativă"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "alʹternatívnaja gipóteza",
      "sense": "hypothesis",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "альтернати́вная гипо́теза"
    }
  ],
  "word": "alternative hypothesis"
}