Causation vs Regression - What's the difference?
causation | regression |
The act of causing.
The act or agency by which an effect is produced.
* Whewell
An action of regressing, a return to a previous state.
* 1899: Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class
(psychotherapy) A psychotherapeutic method whereby healing is facilitated by inducing the patient to act out behaviour typical of an earlier developmental stage.
(statistics) An analytic method to measure the association of one or more independent variables with a dependent variable.
(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).
(programming) The reappearance of a bug in a piece of software that had previously been fixed.
As nouns the difference between causation and regression
is that causation is the act of causing while regression is regression.causation
English
Noun
- the kind of causation by which vision is produced
Derived terms
* causationalExternal links
* *regression
English
(wikipedia regression)Noun
(en noun)- Few of these groups or communities that are classed as "savage" show no traces of regression from a more advanced cultural stage.