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I don't think that physics (for example) uses the word "hypothesis" in the same sense, even though there are, indeed, parallels between the two sciences.

• ninetyninenine 2y ago
  What is the physics definition and what sciences are you referring to?
  • Koshkin 2y ago
    A statistical hypothesis is an assumption about a population parameter. A hypothesis in physics is something else entirely. (Incidentally, there are hypotheses in mathematics, too, called "conjectures"). You may disagree, but I see statistics as a science, akin to physics; which, perhaps, is why we also have "mathematical statistics."
    • ninetyninenine 2y ago
      Well both are statements that can be true or false. I would say in physics it's also a population parameter. It's just sometimes we feel so confident about a single observation that we only need to take 1 sample. >You may disagree, but I see statistics as a science, akin to physics I don't disagree. This has been my entire point. I define statistics as the foundational formal definition of the scientific method.