two-tailed test

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two-tailed test

a test analyzing a nondirectional hypothesis in which the researcher assumes that an extreme score can occur in either extreme of the sampling distribution.

two-tailed test

a test in which both 'large' and 'small' values of the test statistic indicate that the null hypothesis is not correct.

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