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Definition of Acceptance Region

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Definition: The acceptance region occurs in the context of hypothesis testing. Let T be a test statistic. Possible values of T can be divided into two regions, the acceptance region and the rejection region. If the value of T comes out to be in the acceptance region, the null hypothesis being tested is not rejected. If T falls in the rejection region, the null hypothesis is rejected.

The terms 'acceptance region' and 'rejection region' may also refer to the subsets of the sample space that would produce statistics T in the acceptance region or rejection region as defined above.(Econterms)

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  • Davidson, Russell, and James G. MacKinnon. 1993. Estimation and Inference in Econometrics. Oxford University Press.
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