critical region

critical region

noun Statistics.
the rejection region for the null hypothesis in the testing of a hypothesis.

Origin:
1950–55
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critical region
 
n
that part of a statistical distribution in which the probability of a given hypothesis is less than the chosen significance level, so that the hypothesis would be rejected

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