null model
collocation in Englishmeaningsofnullandmodel
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null
adjective
uk/nʌl/us/nʌl/
having no ...
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model
noun[C]
uk/ˈmɒd.əl/us/ˈmɑː.dəl/
something that a copy can be based on because it is an extremely good example of ...
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(Definition ofnullandmodelfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Demographic departures from the standardnullmodelare expected to affect the patterns of observed variability over the whole genome.
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Caution is required however, since limitations of thenullmodelsuggest the probability of a type 2 error will be high.
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The dotted lines show thenullmodelfor comparison.
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Thus, our data are consistent with the randomnullmodel, suggesting that the plant-pollinator relationship in this system tends towards generalization.
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We tested the goodness-of-fit of the chosen model by comparing its deviance to the deviance of thenullmodel.
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The line indicates the best fitting model, significantly different from anullmodelof equiprobability of fusing for each chromosome.
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Recruitment-driven, spatially discontinuous communities : anullmodelfor transferred patterns in target communities of intestinal helminths.
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The model correctly predicted 82 per cent of the cases, a 35 per cent improvement on thenullmodel.
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We consider first the fit of thenullmodel, which assumes no differences between farms or animals, to the observed data.
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The lowest tier with no parameters is thenullmodelof selective neutrality.
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Our analyses indicated that northern bettong dung attracted more dung beetle species than expected from anullmodel.
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Note that (23) is what thenullmodel(21) predicts that the alternative model (22) should find under the null hypothesis.
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An appropriate test statistic is selected to compare formally the observed data with that which would be expected under thenullmodel.
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The dotted quantiles median and quantiles 2 show thenullmodelfor comparison.
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To explore these discrepancies, thenullmodelis, naturally, the most informative model.
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Even if positive or negative associations are more numerous that predicted by a refinednullmodel, they may have several explanations.
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For example, assume that the parameters of interest are the parameters of thenullmodel(1).
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