regression
/ɹiːˈɡɹɛʃ.ən/
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.50 in modern English
Meaning
noun
A psychotherapeutic method whereby healing is facilitated by inducing the patient to act out behaviour typical of an earlier developmental stage.
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An analytic method to measure the association of one or more independent variables with a dependent variable.
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noun
An equation using specified and associated data for two or more variables such that one variable can be estimated from the remaining variable(s).
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noun
The reappearance of a bug in a piece of software that had previously been fixed.
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noun
The making an exercise less straining to perform by manipulating the details of its performance like loaded weight, range of motion, angle, speed.
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Example Sentences
- "Few of these groups or communities that are classed as "savage" show no traces of regression from a more advanced cultural stage."
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɹiːˈɡɹɛʃ.ən/
- British English: /ɹɪˈɡɹɛʃ.ən/