REGRESSION COEFFICIENT

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

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

parametric statistic (any statistic computed by procedures that assume the data were drawn from a particular distribution)

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)

Holonyms ("regression coefficient" is a part of...):

linear regression; rectilinear regression (the relation between variables when the regression equation is linear: e.g., y = ax + b)

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