regression
nounUK /ɹɪˈɡɹɛʃ.ən/ · US /ɹiːˈɡɹɛʃ.ən/
Etymology Learned borrowing from Latin regressio. Equivalent to regress + -ion. The statistics sense comes from regression to the mean.
8 senses
- 1An action of regressing, a return to a previous state.
- 2An action of travelling mentally back in time.
- 3A psychotherapeutic method whereby healing is…
- 4An analytic method to measure the association of one or…
- 5An equation using specified and associated data for two…
- 6The reappearance of a bug in a piece of software that…
- 7The diminishing of a cellular mass like a tumor, or of…
- 8The making an exercise less straining to perform by…
An action of regressing, a return to a previous state.
- Few of these groups or communities that are classed as "savage" show no traces of regression from a more advanced cultural stage.1899, Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class […] , New York: Macmillan, →OCLC:
An action of travelling mentally back in time.
- 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.2001, Carol DeCuffa, In Search of Home: An Essential Guide for the Evolving Soul:
A psychotherapeutic method whereby healing is facilitated by inducing the patient to act out behaviour typical of an earlier developmental stage.
Mathematics, Sciences, Statistics An analytic method to measure the association of one or more independent variables with a dependent variable.
- 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.2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, chapter 4, in Illusion of Order:
- 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.(Can we date this quote?), (Please provide the book title or journal name):
Mathematics, Sciences, Statistics An equation using specified and associated data for two or more variables such that one variable can be estimated from the remaining variable(s).
Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Programming, Sciences The reappearance of a bug in a piece of software that had previously been fixed.
Medicine, Sciences The diminishing of a cellular mass like a tumor, or of an organ size.
- Antonyms
- progression
- Derived terms
- age regression, angioregression, autoregression, regression testing, deregression, Down syndrome regression disorder, kitchen sink regression, metaregression, neuroregression, nonregression, pet regression, regression therapy, regressional, regressionary, regressionism, regressionist, regression toward the mean, regression tree, proregression, sleep regression, regression to the mean, vasoregression