regression

An action of regressing, a return to a previous state.

Few of these groups or communities that are classed as "savage" show no traces of regression from a more advanced cultural stage.

An action of travelling mentally back in time.

I have done past life regressions on my own through self-hypnosis techniques that I learned in Brian Weiss's book Many Lives, Many Masters as well as with past life regression tapes.

A psychotherapeutic method whereby healing is facilitated by inducing the patient to act out behaviour typical of an earlier developmental stage.

An analytic method to measure the association of one or more independent variables with a dependent variable.

A social norm hypothesis [of crime] that focuses on the social meaning of order cannot be tested by a single time frame regression of neighborhood disorder and crime. That is simply asking too much of the data.

Supervised learning problems are categorized into "regression" and "classification" problems. In a regression problem, we are trying to predict results within a continuous output, meaning that we are trying to map input variables to some continuous function.

An equation using specified and associated data for two or more variables such that one variable can be estimated from the remaining variable(s).