rejection region

English

Noun

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.