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rejection region

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rejection region (plural rejection regions)

  1. (statistics) A range of test values for which the null hypothesis is rejected.
    • 2006, William A. Dembski, No Free Lunch, →ISBN:
      Now it turns out that practically speaking a given rejection function induces only two rejection regions.
    • 2010, Chris Spatz, Basic Statistics: Tales of Distributions, →ISBN, page 180:
      Thus, any event in the rejection region leads to rejection of the null hypothesis.
    • 2013, David Weisburd, Chester Britt, Statistics in Criminal Justice, →ISBN, page 185:
      How does this affect our rejection region? In this case, we calculate the area of the rejection region on only one side of the sampling distribution.
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