regress

regression | Business English

regression
noun[ U or S ]
uk /rɪˈɡreʃən/us
a situation in which things get worse rather than better:
There's been a recent rise in nurses' wages after a decade of stagnation or even regression.
The past years have seen a regression in the march of economic progress.

Examples of regression

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Treatment effects did not differ by site or gender in random effects regression models.
In the random regression model, it is assumed to be constant over the time period examined.
Analysis of variance gave non-significant results for both tables, as did the regression equations from scatter diagrams.
Using data from this regression, the interaction effects can be calculated.
This illustrates the ability of regression trees to separate, or group together, cooperating factors under given circumstances.
In this paper we introduce a new approach to robust design based on the concept of inductive learning with regression trees.
Regression trees were originally used to generate predictive models of regression estimates.
Regression trees separate independent variables that, together, change the dependent variable and create multiple groupings to explain the data.
A measure of non-verbal reasoning was then entered into the regression to ensure that common predictors were not simply due to a general ability factor.
Because the outcome of the two regression analyses was virtually identical, we will only report the results for the overall end-adjusted latencies.
On account of these intercorrelations a multiple regression analysis was undertaken of each dependent variable on the four independent ones.
Although all the regression models were significant, the explained variance varied greatly by the type of leisure activity.
The next group of variables in the regression concerns the financial situation of the surveyed households.
This includes regressions with all initial condition variables or just one initial condition varaible at a time.
The order of entering variables in the regression equation was determined by their temporal relationship to outcome.
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Collocations withregression

regression

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binomial regression
Neither elementary acquisition nor adolescent acquisition were significant in the binomial regression analysis conducted on the group of speakers as a whole.
estimated regression
Estimated regression lines reveal a significant interaction : a steeper drop across age groups for backward masking (#) than for forward masking ($).
final regression
In this finalregression equation, three parameters were significant.
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