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Regression vs Fractile - What's the difference?

regression | fractile |

As nouns the difference between regression and fractile

is that regression is regression while fractile is (statistics) the value of a distribution for which some fraction of the sample lies below.

As an adjective fractile is

describing the quality of a sedimentary stone as it relates to the sediments to cohesively bond without fracturing a stone with a low fractile strength lacks tensile strength and will crack or crumble under stress or pressure.

regression

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.
  • (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.
  • Antonyms

    * progression

    Derived terms

    * linear regression * regression to the mean * regression testing (computing) * regression therapy (psychotherapy)

    fractile

    English

    Etymology 1

    From fraction'' and ''-ile

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (statistics) The value of a distribution for which some fraction of the sample lies below.
  • The q''-quantile is the same as the ''(1/q) -fractile .
    The median is the .5-fractile .
    See also
    * quantile

    Etymology 2

    From fracture'' and ''-ile

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Describing the quality of a sedimentary stone as it relates to the sediments to cohesively bond without fracturing. A stone with a low fractile strength lacks tensile strength and will crack or crumble under stress or pressure.