regression
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈɡɹɛʃ.ən/
ipa: /ɹiːˈɡɹɛʃ.ən/
ipa: /ɹɪˈɡɹɛʃ.ən/
ipa: /ɹəˈɡɹɛʃ.ən/
ipa: /ɹəˈɡɹeʃ.ən/
ipa: /rɪˈɡre.ʃən/
ipa: /rɪˈɡrɛ.ʃən/
Forms: form: regressions
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin regressio. Equivalent to regress + -ion.
The statistics sense comes from regression to the mean.
Senses: examples: text: Few of these groups or communities that are classed as "savage" show no traces of regression from a more advanced cultural stage.
ref: 1899, Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class […] , New York: Macmillan, →OCLC:
glosses: An action of regressing, a return to a previous state.
examples: text: I have done past life regressions on my own through self-hypnosis techniques that I learned in Brian Weiss's book Many Lives, Many Masters as well as with past life regression tapes.
ref: 2001, Carol DeCuffa, In Search of Home: An Essential Guide for the Evolving Soul:
glosses: An action of travelling mentally back in time.
qualifier: psychotherapy
glosses: A psychotherapeutic method whereby healing is facilitated by inducing the patient to act out behaviour typical of an earlier developmental stage.
examples: text: A social norm hypothesis [of crime] that focuses on the social meaning of order cannot be tested by a single time frame regression of neighborhood disorder and crime. That is simply asking too much of the data.
ref: 2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, chapter 4, in Illusion of Order:
text: Supervised learning problems are categorized into "regression" and "classification" problems. In a regression problem, we are trying to predict results within a continuous output, meaning that we are trying to map input variables to some continuous function.
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topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: An analytic method to measure the association of one or more independent variables with a dependent variable.
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: An equation using specified and associated data for two or more variables such that one variable can be estimated from the remaining variable(s).
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: The reappearance of a bug in a piece of software that had previously been fixed.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The diminishing of a cellular mass like a tumor, or of an organ size.
topics: exercise
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The making an exercise less straining to perform by manipulating the details of its performance like loaded weight, range of motion, angle, speed.
Hyponyms: linear regression
Derived terms: sense: sense 1
word: proregression
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: regression testing
sense: psychotherapy
word: regression therapy
topics: statistics
mathematics
sciences
word: regression to the mean
sense: others (unsorted)
word: age regression
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word: Down syndrome regression disorder
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word: kitchen sink regression
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word: regression toward the mean
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word: regression tree
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word: sleep regression