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A statement (assumption) concerning the membership of a distribution function (probability density) of a random variable in a certain set of distribution functions containing more than one element. See [[Statistical hypotheses, verification of|Statistical hypotheses, verification of]]; [[Simple hypothesis|Simple hypothesis]].

====References====
<table><TR><TD valign="top">[1]</TD> <TD valign="top">  H. Cramér,   "Mathematical methods of statistics" , Princeton Univ. Press  (1946)</TD></TR></table>