different between regression vs regressed

English

Etymology

From regress +? -ion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i???????n/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /????????n/

Noun

regression (countable and uncountable, plural regressions)

1. An action of regressing, a return to a previous state.
   • 1899: Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class

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

2. An action of travelling mentally back in time.
3. (psychotherapy) A psychotherapeutic method whereby healing is facilitated by inducing the patient to act out behaviour typical of an earlier developmental stage.
4. (statistics) An analytic method to measure the association of one or more independent variables with a dependent variable.

   • 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.[2]

5. (statistics) An equation using specified and associated data for two or more variables such that one variable can be estimated from the remaining variable(s).
6. (programming) The reappearance of a bug in a piece of software that had previously been fixed.
7. (medicine) The diminishing of a cellular mass like a tumor, or of an organ size.
8. (exercise) The making an exercise less straining to perform by manipulating the details of its performance like loaded weight, range of motion, angle, speed.

Antonyms

• progression

Hyponyms

• linear regression

Related terms

• (computing): regression testing
• (psychotherapy): regression therapy
• (statistics): regression to the mean

Translations

References

• regression on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Finnish

Noun

regression

1. Genitive singular form of regressio.

English

Verb

regressed

1. simple past tense and past participle of regress

Adjective

regressed (comparative more regressed, superlative most regressed)

1. That has been subject to regression