one-tailed
adjective
statistics (of a significance test) concerned with the hypothesis that an observed value of a sampling statistic either significantly exceeds or falls significantly below a given value, where the error is relevant only in one direction: for instance, in testing whether scales are fair a customer does not regard overweight goods as a relevant errorCompare two-tailed
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Words nearby one-tailed
one-spot, one-star, one-step, one-stop, one-suiter, one-tailed, one-time, one-to-one, one-track, one-track mind, one-trick pony
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