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    STATISTICAL REGRESSION

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    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)play

    Synonyms:

    regression; regression toward the mean; simple regression; statistical regression

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

    Hypernyms ("statistical regression" is a kind of...):

    statistical method; statistical procedure (a method of analyzing or representing statistical data; a procedure for calculating a statistic)

    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)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "statistical regression"):

    linear regression; rectilinear regression (the relation between variables when the regression equation is linear: e.g., y = ax + b)

    curvilinear regression (the relation between variables when the regression equation is nonlinear (quadratic or higher order))

    Holonyms ("statistical regression" is a part of...):

    regression analysis (the use of regression to make quantitative predictions of one variable from the values of another)

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