mental asymmetry

an imbalance in mental abilities, as in individuals with Williams syndrome, who may exhibit severe impairment in visuospatial abilities but possessing good to exceptional language abilities.

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January 30th 2025

critical region

a range of values that may be obtained from a statistical procedure that would lead to rejecting a specific claim about a population. More specifically, it is the portion of a probability distribution containing the values for a test statistic that would result in rejection of a null hypothesis in favor of its corresponding alternative hypothesis. Also called rejection region. Compare acceptance region.