| NOUN | cognition | regression analysis | the use of regression to make quantitative predictions of one variable from the values of another |
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| Meaning | The use of regression to make quantitative predictions of one variable from the values of another. | |
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| 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 |
| Parts | regression, simple regression, regression toward the mean, statistical regression | 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) |
| regression equation, regression of y on x | The equation representing the relation between selected values of one variable (x) and observed values of the other (y) | |
| regression line, regression curve | A smooth curve fitted to the set of paired data in regression analysis | |
| Broader | multivariate analysis | A generic term for any statistical technique used to analyze data from more than one variable |
| Spanish | análisis de regresión | |
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