The acceptance region is the interval within the sampling distribution of the test statistic that is consistent with the null hypothesis H 0 from hypothesis testing.
It is the complementary region to the rejection region.
The acceptance region is associated with a probability \( { 1-\alpha } \), where α is the significance level of the test.
MATHEMATICAL ASPECTS
See rejection region.
EXAMPLES
See rejection region.
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(2008). Acceptance Region. In: The Concise Encyclopedia of Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-32833-1_1
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