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regression science definition

  1. A subsiding of the symptoms or process of a disease.
  2. The return of a population to an earlier or less complex physical type in successive generations.
  3. The relationship between the mean value of a random variable and the corresponding values of one or more independent variables.
  4. A relative fall in sea level resulting in deposition of terrestrial strata over marine strata. Compare transgression.
  5. Retrograde motion of a celestial body.

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