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Definition of Alternative hypothesis
1. Noun. (statistics) A rival hypothesis to the null hypothesis, whose likelihoods are compared by a statistical hypothesis test. ¹
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Medical Definition of Alternative hypothesis
1. In Neyman-Pearson testing of a hypothesis, the hypothesis or family of hypotheses about the numerical value of a parameter if and only if the null hypothesis is rejected as untenable. (05 Mar 2000)