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LINEAR REGRESSION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The relation between variables when the regression equation is linear: e.g., y = ax + b
Synonyms:
linear regression; rectilinear regression
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("linear 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))
Meronyms (parts of "linear regression"):
regression coefficient (when the regression line is linear (y = ax + b) the regression coefficient is the constant (a) that represents the rate of change of one variable (y) as a function of changes in the other (x); it is the slope of the regression line)
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)
