LINEAR REGRESSION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does linear regression mean? 

• LINEAR REGRESSION (noun)
  The noun LINEAR REGRESSION has 1 sense:

1. the relation between variables when the regression equation is linear: e.g., y = ax + b

  Familiarity information: LINEAR REGRESSION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LINEAR REGRESSION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The relation between variables when the regression equation is linear: e.g., y = ax + b

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

linear regression; rectilinear regression

Hypernyms ("linear regression" is a kind 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))

Meronyms (parts of "linear regression"):

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)

Domain category:

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)

 Context examples 

A graphical analysis technique based on a two compartment model that uses linear regression to identify and analyze pharmacokinetics problems involving irreversible uptake in one compartment.

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