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REGRESSION COEFFICIENT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
When the regression line is linear (y = ax + b) the regression coefficient is the constant (a) that represents the rate of change of one variable (y) as a function of changes in the other (x); it is the slope of the regression line
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("regression coefficient" is a kind of...):
parametric statistic (any statistic computed by procedures that assume the data were drawn from a particular distribution)
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)
Holonyms ("regression coefficient" is a part of...):
linear regression; rectilinear regression (the relation between variables when the regression equation is linear: e.g., y = ax + b)
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