Regression
Appearance
Regression or regressions may refer to:
Science
[edit]- Marine regression, coastal advance due to falling sea level, the opposite of marine transgression
- Regression (medicine), a characteristic of diseases to express lighter symptoms or less extent (mainly for tumors), without disappearing totally
- Regression (psychology), a defensive reaction to some unaccepted impulses
- Nodal regression, the movement of the nodes of an object in orbit, in the opposite direction to the motion of the object
Statistics
[edit]- Regression analysis, a statistical technique for estimating the relationships among variables. There are several types of regression:
- Regression toward the mean, a common statistical phenomenon
Computing
[edit]- Software regression, the appearance of a bug in functionality that was working correctly in a previous revision
- Regression testing, a software testing method which seeks to uncover regression bugs
Hypnosis
[edit]- Age regression in therapy, a process claiming to retrieve memories
- Past life regression, a process claiming to retrieve memories of previous lives
Other uses
[edit]- Infinite regress, a problem in epistemology
- Regression (film), a 2015 horror film directed and written by Alejandro Amenábar, starring Ethan Hawke and Emma Watson
- Regressions (album), 2010 album by Cleric