Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun linear_regression

1 sense of linear regression

Sense 1
linear regression, rectilinear regression -- (the relation between variables when the regression equation is linear: e.g., y = ax + b)
       => regression, simple regression, regression toward the mean, 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))