| 单词 | regression toward the mean |
| 释义 | regression toward the mean (extremely rare) n WORD FAMILY regression toward the mean USAGE EXAMPLESBut that’s just a matter of regression toward the mean. Wall Street Journal(Oct 18, 2016) Minority turnout surged when Barack Obama was the Democratic nominee; one would expect some regression toward the mean with a white lady takes his place. Wall Street Journal(May 10, 2016) When Woods is done, Moore said, golf’s popularity will return to its pre-Woods levels, a phenomenon he described as a regression toward the mean. New York Times(Feb 23, 2015) n 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) Syn|Hypo|Hyper regression, simple regression, statistical regression linear regression, rectilinear regression the relation between variables when the regression equation is linear: e.g., y = ax + b curvilinear regressionthe relation between variables when the regression equation is nonlinear (quadratic or higher order) statistical method, statistical procedure a method of analyzing or representing statistical data; a procedure for calculating a statistic |
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