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regression /rɪˈɡrɛʃ(ə)n /noun [mass noun]1A return to a former or less developed state: it is easy to blame unrest on economic regression...- Will regression afflict the developing countries as aging weakens the industrial world?
- The extent of the economic regression for many countries is astonishing, as is the pace of economic advancement for a small number of countries.
- It was murder for the sport and pleasure of the crowd - a regression to the moral sewer into which the Roman Empire fell in the era immediately preceding its collapse.
1.1A return to an earlier stage of life or a supposed previous life, especially through hypnosis: the details recalled by Carol during the regression [as modifier]: regression therapy [count noun]: a past-life regression...- Many people have experimented with past life regression under hypnosis and claim to recall experiences from previous existences.
- Has anyone experienced past-life regression via hypnosis or other means?
- It seems likely that most so-called past life regressions induced through hypnosis are confabulations fed by cryptomnesia.
1.2A lessening of the severity of a disease or its symptoms: there was 46.7 per cent complete regression in the placebo group...- So, they gave the credit of the natural regression of the disease to the bedrest on which everyone was placed.
- The remaining 130 patients had spontaneous regression of disease.
- In addition, later biopsies may show disease progression or regression.
2 Statistics A measure of the relation between the mean value of one variable (e.g. output) and corresponding values of other variables (e.g. time and cost).We present the results of the linear regression analyses as relative risks and 95% confidence intervals....- The dependent variables for the linear regression models are the percentages of expected corn and soybean production forward priced.
- Bivariate and multivariate logistic regression were the statistical analyses employed in this study.
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