What is the meaning of regression?

Subtopics: simple

An abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely.
- synonyms: arrested development, fixation, infantile fixation
Psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which you flee from reality by assuming a more infantile state. (
The relation between selected values of x and observed values of y (from which the most probable value of y can be predicted for any value of x.
- synonyms: simple regression, regression toward the mean, statistical regression
Returning to a former state.
- synonyms: regress, reversion, retrogression, retroversion

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