Look up: regression

1. regression
   1. (mathematics) A mathematical method where an empirical function is derived from a set of experimental data. 2. regression testing. (1995-03-14)
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2. regression
   (n) A drop in sea level that causes an area of the land to be uncovered by seawater.
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3. Regression
   Regression is the exposure of continental land as the sea level decreases, usually caused by increasing polar ice and glacier formation. Another causes is the local uplift of the continental land.
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4. Regression
   (a) a statistical technique that enables predictions to be made from a set of data.
   (b) a technique used in hypnosis, involving suggesting to hypnotized persons that they are returning to an earlier time. Sometimes the regression occurs spontaneously, without suggestion. See also past-life regression.
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5. Regression
   A statistical technique for fitting a function to a set of data having independent and dependent variables such as to optimise some criterion of fit between the function and the data points.
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6. Regression
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7. Regression
   (a) a statistical technique that enables predictions to be made from a set of data. (b) a technique used in hypnosis, involving suggesting to hypnotized persons that they are returning to an earlier time. Sometimes the regression occurs spontaneously, without suggestion. See also past-life regression.
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8. Regression
   A lowering of sealevel observed in the geological record. See trangression.
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9. regression
   [n] - (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which you flee from reality by assuming a more infantile state 2. [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) 3. [n] - returning to a former state
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10. Regression
    Psychological term to describe when a person temporarily regresses to an earlier stage of psychological development. An independent teenager whos is hospitalised will often become more dependent and react as if he/ she was several years younger.
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11. Regression
    Also known as linefitting. A method that finds the best 'line' through a set of plotted points, used to model an outcome variable in terms of a linear combination of predictor variables (also called independent variables). See also Multiple regression.
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12. Regression
    Psychological defense mechanism, viewed as a return to an earlier mode of behavior, thought, or feeling. The unconscious process that helps the mind resolve conflicts or lessen anxiety by returning to forms of gratification previously abandoned.
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13. Regression
    a statistical technique for using the values of one variable to predict the values of another, based on information about their relationship, often given in a scattergram. Multiple regression involves the prediction of an interval-level variable from the values of two or more other variables. Logist...
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14. Regression
    To go backwards. This usually refers to the loss of skills previously acquired, especially those basic skills related to early childhood.
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15. regression
    the relationship between specified values of one or more variables,termed the independent variable(s),and the expectation of a random variable(the dependent variable)whose distribution depends on the particular values taken on by the independent variable(s) Category: Statistics • a rever...
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16. Regression
    Is the belief that the value of one property is adversely affected by the proximity of a lesser-quality property.
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17. Regression
    Re·gres'sion noun [ Latin regressio : confer French régression .] The act of passing back or returning; retrogression; retrogradation. Sir T. Browne. Edge of regression (of a surface) (Geom.) , the line along w...
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18. regression
    1. A return to a former or earlier state. ... 2. A subsidence of symptoms or of a disease process. ... 3. <psychiatry> A return to earlier, especially to infantile, patterns of thought or behaviour, a characteristic of many mental disorders also exhibited by normal persons in many situations, ...
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19. regression
    simple regression noun 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)
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20. regression
    regress noun returning to a former state
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21. regression
    noun (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which you flee from reality by assuming a more infantile state
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22. regression
    (re-gresh´әn) return to a former or earlier state. subsidence of symptoms or of a disease process. the statistical tendency in successive generations to exhibit values closer and closer to the mean. a type of defense mechanism used to resolve conflict or frustration by returning...
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23. Regression
    • (n.) The act of passing back or returning; retrogression; retrogradation.
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24. regression
    (from the article `defense mechanism`) 4. Regression is a return to earlier stages of development and abandoned forms of gratification belonging to them, prompted by dangers or conflicts ...
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25. regression
    (L. regressio a return) 1. a return to a former or earlier state. 2. a subsidence of symptoms or of a disease process. 3. a return to earlier, especially to infantile, patterns of thought or behaviour, a characteristic of many mental disorders also exhibited by normal persons in many situations, e.g. feelings of helplessness and dependency in a ...
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