What is REGRESSION?

Process for determining the relationship between two variables or more. See also: correlation

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Related Legal Terms
CLASSICAL LINEAR REGRESSION (CLR), REGRESSION EQUATION, REGRESSION ANALYSIS (RA), MULTIPLE REGRESSION ANALYSIS, SIMPLE REGRESSION, REGRESSION TOWARDS THE MEAN, LINEAR REGRESSION, COEFFICIENT OF CORRELATION (R), COVARIANCE, LINEAR RELATIONSHIP


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