• A null hypothesis is a type of hypothesis in statistics that assumes that there is no difference between certain characteristics of the population or process that generates the data.

  • The alternative hypothesis suggests that there is a difference.
  • Hypothesis testing provides a method of rejecting the null hypothesis within a certain level of confidence.
  • If you can reject the null hypothesis, this provides support for the alternative hypothesis.
  • Testing the null hypothesis underlies the principle of falsification in science.