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