two-tailed


two–tailed

adj \ˈtü-ˈtāl(d)\

Definition of TWO-TAILED

: being a statistical test for which the critical region consists of all values of the test statistic greater than a given value plus the values less than another given value — compare one-tailed

Variants of TWO-TAILED

two–tailed also two–tail \-ˈtāl\

First Known Use of TWO-TAILED

1945

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