Regress vs Regrets - What's the difference?
regress | regrets |
The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression.
* Frederic Harrison
The power or liberty of passing back.
* Shakespeare
To move backwards to an earlier stage; to devolve.
(statistics) To perform a regression on an explanatory variable.
As nouns the difference between regress and regrets
is that regress is the act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression while regrets is plural of lang=en.As verbs the difference between regress and regrets
is that regress is to move backwards to an earlier stage; to devolve while regrets is third-person singular of regret.regress
English
Noun
(-)- Its bearing on the progress or regress of man is not an inconsiderable question.
- Thou shalt have egress and regress;
Derived terms
* infinite regressVerb
(es)- When we regress Y on X, we use the values of variable X to predict those Y.
