regression

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Freddie Freeman, Mookie Betts and Teoscar Hernández all showed signs of regression last season.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 23, 2026

"We saw total tumor regression and long-term prevention of recurrence, all without seeing any systemic toxicity."

From Science Daily • Mar. 1, 2026

Trade experts argue that the shift reflects audience demand rather than creative regression in the industry.

From BBC • Jan. 2, 2026

In 1975, as a student at Harvard, I wrote the first law review note calling for the use of statistical regression analysis in employment discrimination cases.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025

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