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Regression vs Regressor - What's the difference?

regression | regressor |

As nouns the difference between regression and regressor

is that regression is an action of regressing, a return to a previous state while regressor is that which regresses, or causes regression.

regression

English

(wikipedia 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)

    regressor

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • That which regresses, or causes regression