Statistics
In statistics, a critical value is the value corresponding to a given significance level. This cutoff value determines the boundary between those samples resulting in a test statistic that leads to rejecting the null hypothesis and those that lead to a decision not to reject the null hypothesis. If the calculated value from the statistical test is less than the critical value, then you fail to reject the null hypothesis. If the calculated statistic is outside of the critical value, then you reject the null hypothesis and are forced to accept the alternate hypothesis.
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