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A method for determining the association between a dependent variable and one or more independent variables.
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| regression analysis |
A statistical technique for investigating and modeling the relationship between variables.
Ãâó: nces.ed.gov/programs/projections/appendix_D.asp
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| regression analysis |
A statistical method to estimate any trend that might exist among important factors. An example in fisheries management is the link between catch and other factors like fishing effort and natural mortality.
Ãâó: www.ncfisheries.net/stocks/defso_r.htm
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| regression |
1. a return to a former or earlier state. 2. a subsidence of symptoms or of a disease process. 3. in biology, the tendency in successive generations toward the mean; see Galton's law of regression, under law. 4. a return to earlier, especially to infantile, patterns of thought or behavior, a characteristic of many mental disorders also exhibited by normal persons in many situations, e.g., feelings of helplessness and dependency in a patient with a serious physical illness. 5. a functional relationship between the mean value of a random variable and the corresponding values of one or more variables identified by the experimenter (the independent variables).
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| regression a. |
interpretation of a finite population of data by exploring the relationship between several variables using the principle of regression; see regression (def. 5).
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