REGRESSION ANALYSIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does regression analysis mean? 

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

1. the use of regression to make quantitative predictions of one variable from the values of another

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• REGRESSION ANALYSIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The use of regression to make quantitative predictions of one variable from the values of another

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("regression analysis" is a kind of...):

multivariate analysis (a generic term for any statistical technique used to analyze data from more than one variable)

Meronyms (parts of "regression analysis"):

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)

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 

In their multivariate regression analysis, the researchers found aspirin therapy was independently associated with reduced liver cancer risk.

(An Aspirin A Day Keep Liver Cancer Away, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

In multivariate regression analysis, age, hair whitening score, hypertension and dyslipidaemia were independent predictors of the presence of atherosclerotic coronary artery disease.

(Grey Hair Linked with Increased Heart Disease Risk in Men, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Regression analysis provides a "best-fit" mathematical equation for the relationship between the dependent variable (response) and independent variable(s) (covariates).

(Parametric Regression Method, NCI Thesaurus)