I think you are right that this is not generally recognized term like
null or alternative. But it is sometimes used. Just put "maintained
hypothesis" into Google search engine.
"Null hypothesis" is only one possible interpretation of "maintained
hypothesis". There is at least one other interpretation that
"maintained hypothesis" = "null hypothesis" + "alternative
hypothesis". Of course, strictly speaking "null hypothesis" +
"alternative hypothesis" is almost always true by assumption. But it
could be false if the model itself is false. We just always assume
(maintain) that the model is true. So this could be called (and
sometimes is called) "maintained hypothesis".
Good example is a paper by Donald Andrews
http://cowles.econ.yale.edu/P/cd/d12a/d1229.pdf
But Andrews is an econometrician. May be for statisticians this
meaning is not familiar.
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Alexander Tsyplakov
Novosibirsk State University
http://matrixer.narod.ru/
Bob Wheeler wrote...
> I don't believe that this is a generally
> recognized technical term. I suppose that its use
> is an attempt to avoid the word "null" in "null
> hypothesis," which is what the writers mean. The
> adjective "maintained" in this context corresponds
> to the Russian "itberzhdati." (not sure of the
> approved transliteration)
>
> Alexander Tsyplakov wrote:
> >
> > The meaning of the term "maintained hypothesis" differs in the
> > literature. I'm not sure which meaning is correct (or more widely
> > used). Can anybody help? I need this for English-Russian
dictionary.
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