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conventional alternative hypothesis
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null hypothesis
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[spatial statistics (use for geostatistics)]
In statistical testing, a set of assumptions that will be accepted by test data if the null hypothesis is rejected. In surveying, the alternative hypothesis assumes that there is an outlier present in a single measurement in a measurement network. The test associated with this hypothesis is the W-test.
