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n. - Returning to a former state; 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);

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  • Cheng said that, among a list of 10 grievances, Chen also described Taiwan's legal system as "dead" and said he mourned what he described as a regression in Taiwan's...
  • The recent regression is more about class politics than anything else.
  • They are called the "omitted variables" or "error term" in regression terminology.
  • Doc says I need to lose another 40 to be assured of long term regression of disease.
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