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regression (iou)



regression noun. LME.
[Latin regressio(n-), formed as REGRESS verb: see -ION.]
Recurrence or repetition of a word or words. rare. LME-L16.
Return to a subject of discussion etc. E16-E17.
The action or an act of returning to or towards a place or point of departure. L16.
Scientific American Marine transgressions onto the continents and regressions from them.
Return to or into a state or condition; relapse; reversion to a less developed form. M17.
W. Lippmann A regression to a more primitive mode of production.
b. Genetics. The tendency of parents who are exceptional in respect of some partially inherited character to produce offspring in which this character is closer to the mean value for the general population. Freq. as regression to the mean. L19.
c. Statistics. The relationship between the mean value of a random variable and the corresponding values of one or more other variables. L19.
d. Psychology. The process of returning or a tendency to return to an earlier stage of development through hypnosis, psychoanalysis, mental illness, etc. E20.
= REGRESS noun 4. M17.
Chiefly Astronomy. = REGRESS noun 5. E19.
Comb.: regression coefficient a coefficient in the regression equation; esp. the first-order coefficient, which is estimated by the covariance of the two variables divided by the variance of the independent variable; regression curve a graph of the expected value of the dependent variable plotted against the value of the independent variable(s); regression equation an equation which relates the value of the dependent variable to the value(s) of the independent variable(s); regression line = regression curve above; regression therapy Psychoanalysis the induction of regression, esp. by hypnosis, in order to discover possible causes of a patient's disorder in his or her earlier life, or to bring repressed memories, feelings, etc., to the conscious mind.