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Regress
The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression.
📖 Definitions of "Regress"
noun
- 1
The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression.
- 2
The power or liberty of passing back.
- 3
In property law, the right of a person (such as a lessee) to return to a property.
verb
- 1
To move backwards to an earlier stage; to devolve.
- 2
To move from east to west.
- 3
To perform a regression on an explanatory variable.
"When we regress Y on X, we use the values of variable X to predict those of Y."
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