REGRESS

regress

Noun

  1. The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression.
  2. The power or liberty of passing back.

Verb

  1. To move backwards to an earlier stage; to devolve.
  2. To perform a regression on an explanatory variable.
    When we regress Y on X, we use the values of variable X to predict those Y.


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