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==Critical values==

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The ''&alpha;''-level upper [[critical value (statistics)]] of a [[probability distribution]] is the value exceeded with probability <math display="inline">\alpha</math>, that is, the value <math display="inline">x_\alpha</math> such that <math display="inline">F(x_\alpha) = 1-\alpha</math>, where <math display="inline">F</math> is the cumulative distribution function. There are standard notations for the upper critical values of some commonly used distributions in statistics:

*<math display="inline">z_\alpha</math> or <math display="inline">z(\alpha)</math> for the [[standard normal distribution]]

*<math display="inline">t_{\alpha,\nu}</math> or <math display="inline">t(\alpha,\nu)</math> for the [[Student's t-distribution|''t''-distribution]] with <math display="inline">\nu</math> [[Degrees of freedom (statistics)|degrees of freedom]]