REGRESSION EQUATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does regression equation mean? 

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

1. 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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• REGRESSION EQUATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

regression equation; regression of y on x

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

equation (a mathematical statement that two expressions are equal)

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)

Holonyms ("regression equation" is a part of...):

regression analysis (the use of regression to make quantitative predictions of one variable from the values of another)

 Context examples 

Parametric regression requires choice of the regression equation with one or a greater number of unknown parameters.

(Parametric Regression Method, NCI Thesaurus)