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. 2016 Mar-Apr;61(2):137–145. doi: 10.4103/0019-5154.177775

Figure 2.

Figure 2

A normal distribution curve with its two tails. Note that an observed result is likely to return a statistically significant result in hypothesis testing if it falls in one of the two shaded areas, which together represent 5% of the total area. Thus, the shaded area is the area of rejection of the null hypothesis