regression
- Noun. An action of regressing, a return to a previous state.
- Noun. (psychotherapy) A psychotherapeutic method whereby healing is facilitated by inducing the patient to act out behaviour typical of an earlier developmental stage.
- Noun. (statistics) An analytic method to measure the association of one or more independent variables with a dependent variable.
- Noun. (statistics) An equation using specified and associated data for two or more variables such that one variable can be estimated from the remaining variable(s).
- Noun. (programming) The reappearance of a bug in a piece of software that had previously been fixed.
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