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MULTIPLE REGRESSION
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
A statistical technique that predicts values of one variable on the basis of two or more other variables
Synonyms:
multiple correlation; multiple regression
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("multiple regression" is a kind of...):
multivariate analysis (a generic term for any statistical technique used to analyze data from more than one variable)
Domain category:
statistics (a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "multiple regression"):
multicollinearity (a case of multiple regression in which the predictor variables are themselves highly correlated)
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