simple regression

Questions about simple regression

What does simple regression mean?

simple regression means "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)".

What is another word for simple regression?

Close synonyms include regression, regression toward the mean, statistical regression. 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 simple regression a common word?

simple 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.