multiple regression

1. 1.

   a statistical technique that predicts values of one variable on the basis of two or more other variables

   Synonymsmultiple correlation

   Broadermultivariate analysis

   Narrowermulticollinearity

   statistics

Questions about multiple regression

What does multiple regression mean?

multiple regression means "a statistical technique that predicts values of one variable on the basis of two or more other variables".

What is another word for multiple regression?

Close synonyms include multiple correlation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is multiple regression a common word?

multiple regression is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.