What Are the Two Primary Factors That the Daubert Test

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Short Answer

What are the two primary factors that the Daubert test requires that the trial judge make the determination of whether an expert's testimony is acceptable in court?

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Definitions:

Area

A measure of the extent of a two-dimensional surface or shape, expressed in square units.

F-distribution

A probability distribution that arises in the testing of whether two population variances are equal.

Testing

The process of using statistical methods to determine if there is enough evidence to reject a given hypothesis about a data set.

Z-test

A statistical test used to determine whether there is a significant difference between the mean of a sample and the mean of a population, or between the means of two samples, assuming a normal distribution.