REGRESSION LINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does regression line mean? 

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

1. a smooth curve fitted to the set of paired data in regression analysis; for linear regression the curve is a straight line

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• REGRESSION LINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A smooth curve fitted to the set of paired data in regression analysis; for linear regression the curve is a straight line

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

regression curve; regression line

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

curve (a line on a graph representing data)

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 line" is a part of...):

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