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null (nul)
1. insignificant; having no consequence or value.
2. absent or nonexistent.
3. zero; nothing.

null
an absence of information, as contrasted with zero or blank or nil, about a value.

null cell
called also null lymphocyte; see null cell.
null hypothesis
a statistical hypothesis which states that one variable has no association with another variable, or set of variables. That is, the observed results can be explained by chance alone.
null lymphocyte
see null cell.


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The Value of Nulls When used for its stated purpose, null can be quite useful as shown in the Clients table in figure 1.
If it is possible that null values may be stored in your data, it is a good idea to create queries and data-modification statements that either eliminate NULLs or transform NULLs into some other value (if you do not want null values appearing in your data).
0188, is significantly greater, but this may be an overestimate if many of the nulls segregating among inbred lines are allelic.
 
 
 
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