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critical value

[ krit-i-kuhl val-yoo ]

noun

, Statistics.
  1. the value of the random variable at the boundary between the acceptance region and the rejection region in the testing of a hypothesis:

    Each row in the table contains critical values for one of the t distributions.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of critical value1

First recorded in 1905–10
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Example Sentences

The pile approaches an equilibrium, where sand drops off the edge at the same rate you add sand to the center, and the density holds steady at the critical value.

The complete edition of Joshua Barnes is no longer of any critical value.

Could we believe that we possess it in a tolerably pure form, its critical value would be very great.

But it is obvious that such connection is purely arbitrary, and has no critical value.

The fact that Mark of Rome gives a short summary of the story is interesting, but so brief a rsum is of little critical value.

Exceptionally fine; of critical value and full of suggestive insight.

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