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REGRESSION LINE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A smooth curve fitted to the set of paired data in regression analysis; for linear regression the curve is a straight line
Synonyms:
regression curve; regression line
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("regression line" is a kind of...):
curve (a line on a graph representing data)
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)
Holonyms ("regression line" is a part of...):
regression analysis (the use of regression to make quantitative predictions of one variable from the values of another)
