linear regression

Noun
  1. referred to in: statistics - a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters
    is a type of: regression, regression toward the mean, simple regression, statistical regression - 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)
    has: regression coefficient - when the regression line is linear (y = ax + b) the regression coefficient is the constant (a) that represents the rate of change of one variable (y) as a function of changes in the other (x); it is the slope of the regression line
    same as: rectilinear regression

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