one-tailed

British  

adjective

1. 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 error Compare two-tailed

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one-tailed

A one-tailed test provides a lower standard for achieving significance compared to the much more common two-tailed test.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 5, 2020

At the 7–12 month follow-up the decrease was not significant, even according to the lower standards of the one-tailed test.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 5, 2020

Also, this is a one-tailed test because the company has only an interested if the number of dollars per contact is below a particular number not "too high" a number.

From Textbooks ● Nov. 29, 2017

Remember, if someone is making a claim it will always be a one-tailed test.

From Textbooks ● Nov. 29, 2017

Clare seemed absorbed in his game with his four-footed, one-tailed friends, but he was wide awake: he had Abdiel to deliver, and kept, therefore, all the time, at least half an eye on Glum Gunn.

From A Rough Shaking by George MacDonald