regressionnoun/ɹɪˈɡɹɛʃ.ən/

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  An action of regressing, a return to a previous state.

  • Few of these groups or communities that are classed as "savage" show no traces of regression from a more advanced cultural stage.
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  An action of travelling mentally back in time.

  • I have done past life regressions on my own through self-hypnosis techniques that I learned in Brian Weiss's book Many Lives, Many Masters as well as with past life regression tapes.
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  A psychotherapeutic method whereby healing is facilitated by inducing the patient to act out behaviour typical of an earlier developmental stage.

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  mathematicssciencesstatisticsAn analytic method to measure the association of one or more independent variables with a dependent variable.

  • A social norm hypothesis [of crime] that focuses on the social meaning of order cannot be tested by a single time frame regression of neighborhood disorder and crime. That is simply asking too much of the data.
  • Supervised learning problems are categorized into "regression" and "classification" problems. In a regression problem, we are trying to predict results within a continuous output, meaning that we are trying to map input variables to some continuous function.
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  mathematicssciencesstatisticsAn equation using specified and associated data for two or more variables such that one variable can be estimated from the remaining variable(s).

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  computingengineeringmathematicsThe reappearance of a bug in a piece of software that had previously been fixed.

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  medicinesciencesThe diminishing of a cellular mass like a tumor, or of an organ size.

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  exercisehobbieslifestyleThe making an exercise less straining to perform by manipulating the details of its performance like loaded weight, range of motion, angle, speed.