regression analysis

1. The use of regression to make quantitative predictions of one variable from the values of another (synset 106037551)
   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: multivariate analysis - a generic term for any statistical technique used to analyze data from more than one variable
   has:

   • 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)
   • regression equation, regression of y on x - the equation representing the relation between selected values of one variable (x) and observed values of the other (y); it permits the prediction of the most probable values of y
   • regression curve, regression line - a smooth curve fitted to the set of paired data in regression analysis; for linear regression the curve is a straight line

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