regression
the act of going back to a previous place or state; return or reversion.
retrogradation; retrogression.
Biology. reversion to an earlier or less advanced state or form or to a common or general type.
Psychoanalysis. the reversion to a chronologically earlier or less adapted pattern of behavior and feeling.
a subsidence of a disease or its manifestations: a regression of symptoms.
of, relating to, or determined by regression analysis: regression curve; regression equation.
Origin of regression
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- non·re·gres·sion, noun
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How to use regression in a sentence
To explain Olympic cost blowouts, the researchers said overruns did not, over time, undergo a “regression to the mean” — the statistical phenomenon that looks at the impact of repeat events on outcomes.
We derive the distribution of outcome relationships by performing an XGBoost regression.
The Forecast: The Methodology Behind Our 2020 Election Model | Daniel Malloy | September 10, 2020 | OzyOur modeling process utilizes an ensemble technique, incorporating various algorithms and variable subsets, including logistic regression, random forest, XGBoost and elastic net to forecast elections.
The Forecast: The Methodology Behind Our 2020 Election Model | Daniel Malloy | September 10, 2020 | OzyWe actually need to create barriers to regression to the status quo.
COVID-19 has spurred rapid transformation in health care. Let’s make sure it stays that way | jakemeth | August 20, 2020 | FortuneThe rigid method, which is the most accurate historically, receives the majority of the weight, followed by the demographic regression and then the regional regression.
How FiveThirtyEight’s 2020 Presidential Forecast Works — And What’s Different Because Of COVID-19 | Nate Silver (nrsilver@fivethirtyeight.com) | August 12, 2020 | FiveThirtyEight
Of course this absurd historical regression is just theatrical cover for EYUR's real intentions, which were purely reactive.
Alexander Dugin: The Crazy Ideologue of the New Russian Empire | Oleg Shynkarenko | April 2, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn the academy, there is no truth without a statistical regression.
Why Money Is the Root of All That’s Wrong With Washington | Lawrence Lessig | October 21, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTWorst of all, they elide the obvious point that all revolts fluctuate between periods of progress and regression.
Defeating the Arab Spring Syndrome of Self-Defeat | Talal Alyan | October 15, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTIn an idea-deprived fashion world, punk has become just the latest way station in an infinite retro-regression.
Punk: Chaos to Couture at the Costume Institute Shows How Derivative the Style Has Become | Blake Gopnik | May 6, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTOur R2 regression shows that about 1.8 percent of the variation in voting is explained by county median income.
Why the Republican Party’s Narrative on Income and Voting Failed | Alex Klein | December 10, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTHe was thinking: yesterday wasted—covert regression, myself included—no more of that!
We're Friends, Now | Henry HasseFew of these groups or communities that are classed as "savage" show no traces of regression from a more advanced cultural stage.
The Theory of the Leisure Class | Thorstein VeblenWar is a reaction, a regression, but still it is something more than a mere slipping of the machinery of life.
The Psychology of Nations | G.E. PartridgeRapid change invariably betokens regression—descent being vastly easier and swifter in movement than ascent is.
Feminism and Sex-Extinction | Arabella KenealyEven if we could achieve this feat of regression, we could not reach by this means a God distinct from the universe.
Theism or Atheism | Chapman Cohen
British Dictionary definitions for regression
/ (rɪˈɡrɛʃən) /
psychol the adoption by an adult or adolescent of behaviour more appropriate to a child, esp as a defence mechanism to avoid anxiety
statistics
the analysis or measure of the association between one variable (the dependent variable) and one or more other variables (the independent variables), usually formulated in an equation in which the independent variables have parametric coefficients, which may enable future values of the dependent variable to be predicted
(as modifer): regression curve
astronomy the slow movement around the ecliptic of the two points at which the moon's orbit intersects the ecliptic. One complete revolution occurs about every 19 years
geology the retreat of the sea from the land
the act of regressing
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Scientific definitions for regression
[ rĭ-grĕsh′ən ]
A subsiding of the symptoms or process of a disease.
The return of a population to an earlier or less complex physical type in successive generations.
The relationship between the mean value of a random variable and the corresponding values of one or more independent variables.
A relative fall in sea level resulting in deposition of terrestrial strata over marine strata. Compare transgression.
Retrograde motion of a celestial body.
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Cultural definitions for regression
A Freudian concept used by psychiatrists to signify a return to primitive or impulsive behavior after more mature behavior has been learned. (See also defense mechanism, id, and libido.)
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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