regression

What does regression mean?

• A valid word accepted in tournament Scrabble and Words With Friends play.

• 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)

• noun

  returning to a former state

• noun

  an abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely

• noun

  (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which you flee from reality by assuming a more infantile state

Anagrams of regression