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

1 sense of regression coefficient

Sense 1
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)
       => parametric statistic -- (any statistic computed by procedures that assume the data were drawn from a particular distribution)