Correlation vs. Regression

Correlationnoun

A reciprocal, parallel or complementary relationship between two or more comparable objects

Correlationnoun

(statistics) One of the several measures of the linear statistical relationship between two random variables, indicating both the strength and direction of the relationship.

Correlationnoun

(algebra) An isomorphism from a projective space to the dual of a projective space, often to the dual of itself.

Correlationnoun

Reciprocal relation; corresponding similarity or parallelism of relation or law; capacity of being converted into, or of giving place to, one another, under certain conditions; as, the correlation of forces, or of zymotic diseases.

Correlationnoun

a reciprocal relation between two or more things

Correlationnoun

a statistic representing how closely two variables co-vary; it can vary from -1 (perfect negative correlation) through 0 (no correlation) to +1 (perfect positive correlation);

Correlationnoun

a statistical relation between two or more variables such that systematic changes in the value of one variable are accompanied by systematic changes in the other

Correlation

In statistics, correlation or dependence is any statistical relationship, whether causal or not, between two random variables or bivariate data. In the broadest sense correlation is any statistical association, though it commonly refers to the degree to which a pair of variables are linearly related.

Regressionnoun

An action of regressing, a return to a previous state.

Regressionnoun

An action of travelling back in time.

Regressionnoun

(psychotherapy) A psychotherapeutic method whereby healing is facilitated by inducing the patient to act out behaviour typical of an earlier developmental stage.

Regressionnoun

(statistics) An analytic method to measure the association of one or more independent variables with a dependent variable.

Regressionnoun

(statistics) An equation using specified and associated data for two or more variables such that one variable can be estimated from the remaining variable(s).

Regressionnoun

(programming) The reappearance of a bug in a piece of software that had previously been fixed.

Regressionnoun

(medicine) The diminishing of a cellular mass like a tumor, or of an organ size.

Regressionnoun

The act of passing back or returning; retrogression; retrogradation.

Regressionnoun

an abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely

Regressionnoun

(psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which you flee from reality by assuming a more infantile state

Regressionnoun

the relation between selected values of x and observed values of y (from which the most probable value of y can be predicted for any value of x)

Regressionnoun

returning to a former state