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

1 sense of regression toward the mean

Sense 1
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))
       => statistical method, statistical procedure -- (a method of analyzing or representing statistical data; a procedure for calculating a statistic)