An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
REGRESSION
regression, regress, reversion, retrogression, retroversion
(noun) returning to a former state
regression, simple regression, regression toward the mean, statistical regression
(noun) the relation between selected values of x and observed values of y (from which the most probable value of y can be predicted for any value of x)
regression
(noun) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which you flee from reality by assuming a more infantile state
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
regression (countable and uncountable, plural regressions)
An action of regressing, a return to a previous state.
An action of travelling mentally back in time.
(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.
(medicine) The diminishing of a cellular mass like a tumor, or of an organ size.
Antonyms
• progression
Hyponyms
• linear regression
Source: Wiktionary
Re*gres"sion (r*grsh"n), n. Etym: [L. regressio: cf. F. régression.]
Definition: The act of passing back or returning; retrogression; retrogradation. Sir T. Browne. Edge of regression (of a surface) (Geom.), the line along which a surface turns back upon itself; -- called also a cuspidal edge.
– Regression point (Geom.), a cusp.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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