critical ratio

[ krit-i-kuhl rey-shoh, ‐rey-shee-oh ]

nounStatistics.
  1. a ratio associated with the probability of a sample, usually the ratio of the deviation from the mean to the standard deviation: The critical ratios were created by dividing the skewness by the standard error values for each variable.

Origin of critical ratio

1
First recorded in 1910–15

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