Critical-region
noun, Statistics.
1.
the rejection region for the null hypothesis in the testing of a hypothesis.
noun
1.
that part of a statistical distribution in which the probability of a given hypothesis is less than the chosen significance level, so that the hypothesis would be rejected
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