regression
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Conditional logistic regression allowed them to compare changes within individual patients.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026
“And because I think that the last ‘pen that he had, there was a little bit of regression.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
But if he does return to ties and suits as prime minister, it will only be a regression to his previous Westminster look.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
Multiple FMD cycles lead to fat loss with little or no lean-mass loss, promote A1C reduction and diabetes regression and have anti-inflammatory effects, including in patients with inflammatory bowel disease.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
This phenomenon leads to nonsense when people attribute the regression to the mean to some particular scientific law, rather than to the natural behavior of any random quantity.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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A simple regression showed that — including similar control variables as in prior regressions — the likelihood of private listings and sales to investors increases with age.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 13, 2026
“If key departures slow iteration, cause quality regressions, or reduce community trust, the open-source flywheel weakens.”
From Barron's ● Mar. 17, 2026
They solve problems, explain steps, interpret statistical output and run regressions from uploaded data.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 25, 2025
Former audio programmer Isaac Hudd says "mistakes started piling up" during crunch, and says "regressions", where one team would fix a bug only for another to unwittingly bring it back to life, became increasingly common.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2025
The flight instructors mistakenly attributed the pilots’ deterioration to their praise of them, and likewise the pilots’ improvement to their criticism; both, however, were simply regressions to the more likely mean performance.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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