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REGRESSION ANALYSIS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The use of regression to make quantitative predictions of one variable from the values of another
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("regression analysis" is a kind of...):
multivariate analysis (a generic term for any statistical technique used to analyze data from more than one variable)
Meronyms (parts of "regression analysis"):
regression; regression toward the mean; simple regression; statistical regression (the relation between selected values of x and observed values of y (from which the most probable value of y can be predicted for any value of x))
regression equation; regression of y on x (the equation representing the relation between selected values of one variable (x) and observed values of the other (y); it permits the prediction of the most probable values of y)
regression curve; regression line (a smooth curve fitted to the set of paired data in regression analysis; for linear regression the curve is a straight line)
Domain category:
statistics (a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters)
