CURVILINEAR REGRESSION

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

The relation between variables when the regression equation is nonlinear (quadratic or higher order)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("curvilinear regression" is a kind of...):

regression; regression toward the mean; simple regression; statistical regression (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))

Domain category:

statistics (a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters)

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