regression

regress | American Dictionary

regress
verb[ I ]
us/rɪˈɡres/
to return to a previous and less advanced or worse state:
Our team improved in the second half, while our opponents regressed.

regression

noun[ U ]us/rɪˈɡreʃ·ən/
Learning a language requires regression to childlike simplicity.

Examples of regress

regress
Two simple tests for multicollinearity are: (i) regress each independent variable on the remaining independent variables.
The final model, regressed the dependent variable (life satisfaction) onto the mediator (environmental mastery) and the independent variables.
Next, we conducted logistic regression analyses in which each of the four young adult offspring outcomes was regressed on the residualized family circumstance variables.
We then derived a linear factor score and regressed it on each raw-score depression scale.
In the first model, mortality risk was regressed only on the two early-retirement measures.
Results indicated that learners made significant collocation improvement immediately after the online practice but regressed later.
Sound levels at the time of testing were regressed against reading comprehension and annoyance within the high noise sample.
She stresses how much she wants to reject the thinking behind terms such as ' winners and losers, centers and margins, progress and regress ' (p. 5).
Controlling for soil quality with regional dummies, we regressed the biomass density on annual rainfall in the villages for which biomass density data were available.
Even if we can find a way to halt the regress, the prospect is disturbing.
In order to test this hypothesis, we divided our analysis into two parts, regressing political variables against inflation rates for the 1970s and 1980s separately.
This produces three separate equations, in which measures of factional influence and control variables are regressed on to each candidate's share of the vote.
Specific weight measured with the standard procedure was regressed against the weight of grain filling the reduced-volume chondrometer.
Missing sensitivity scores were generated by substituting values derived from a regression equation in which sensitivity was regressed on the global sensitivity ratings.
It can regress spontaneously, but may also progress to stage 4 or 5, where retinal detachment is present and treatment is not effective.
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