statistical regression

Questions about statistical regression

What does statistical regression mean?

statistical 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 statistical regression?

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

statistical 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.