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Throwback vs Regression - What's the difference?

throwback | regression |

As nouns the difference between throwback and regression

is that throwback is a reversion to an earlier stage of development while regression is regression.

throwback

English

Noun

  • A reversion to an earlier stage of development.
  • *
  • An organism that has characteristics of a more primitive form.
  • An atavism.
  • *
  • A person similar to an ancestor, or something new similar to what already existed.

    • Synonyms

    * (of a previous age) anachronism

    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)