regression

CEFRB2

/ɹɪˈɡɹɛʃ.ən/

noun

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noun
A return to an earlier or worse condition.
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noun
Extra detail
A psychotherapeutic method whereby healing is facilitated by inducing the patient to act out behaviour typical of an earlier developmental stage.

Examples

Support vector machines are supervised learning models used for classification and regression analysis.
It is not progress but regression.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Also pronounced

Deep Dive

Extra meanings

An action of regressing, a return to a previous state.
An action of travelling mentally back in time.
An analytic method to measure the association of one or more independent variables with a dependent variable.

In context

Few of these groups or communities that are classed as "savage" show no traces of regression from a more advanced cultural stage.
I have done past life regressions on my own through self-hypnosis techniques that I learned in Brian Weiss's book Many Lives, Many Masters as well as with past life regression tapes.
A social norm hypothesis [of crime] that focuses on the social meaning of order cannot be tested by a single time frame regression of neighborhood disorder and crime. That is simply asking too much of the data.

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Few of these groups or communities that are classed as "savage" show no traces of regression from a more advanced cultural stage.
1899, Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class […] , New York: Macmillan, →OCLC
I have done past life regressions on my own through self-hypnosis techniques that I learned in Brian Weiss's book Many Lives, Many Masters as well as with past life regression tapes.
2001, Carol DeCuffa, In Search of Home: An Essential Guide for the Evolving Soul
A social norm hypothesis [of crime] that focuses on the social meaning of order cannot be tested by a single time frame regression of neighborhood disorder and crime. That is simply asking too much of the data.
2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, chapter 4, in Illusion of Order
Supervised learning problems are categorized into "regression" and "classification" problems. In a regression problem, we are trying to predict results within a continuous output, meaning that we are trying to map input variables to some continuous function.
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Learned borrowing from Latin regressio. Equivalent to regress + -ion. The statistics sense comes from regression to the mean.