Regression vs. Classification

Regressionnoun

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

Regressionnoun

An action of travelling back in time.

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

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(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.

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(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

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(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

Classificationnoun

The act of forming into a class or classes; a distribution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some common relations or attributes.

Classificationnoun

The act of forming into a class or classes; a distribution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some common relations or affinities.

Classificationnoun

the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type

Classificationnoun

a group of people or things arranged by class or category

Classificationnoun

the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories

Classificationnoun

restriction imposed by the government on documents or weapons that are available only to certain authorized people

Classificationnoun

the action or process of classifying something

Classificationnoun

the arrangement of animals and plants in taxonomic groups according to their observed similarities (including at least kingdom and phylum in animals, division in plants, and class, order, family, genus, and species)

Classificationnoun

a category into which something is put