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Example sentences for: assumption

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The assumption is that stock prices will ultimately (whenever that is) return to their fundamental values, however much extraneous factors may be influencing them at the moment.
The C-terminus strong conservation leads to the assumption that all the related genes derive by duplication events from a common ancestor, but the identity of this ancestral gene and the date of expansion can only be hypothesized.
In this case, the quantity x comp ( d ) drops out, which insures that w neut ( d ) + w comp ( d ) is always identical to w ( d ). M2 does not suffer from double counting viable sequences, but it uses less information than M1 and depends on an additional assumption.
The number of random differences to be expected among thousands of comparisons with t-tests or rank sum tests is based on the assumption that comparisons are independent of one another.
One assumption is that the volume is conserved during cell division.