regression
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“These circumstances place children at significant risk of academic regression, mental health challenges and long-term instability,” Bagula wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2026
"Martin's not going to say it, of course, but the club is in regression, the team is in regression," Sutton stated on Sky Sports.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026
Conditional logistic regression allowed them to compare changes within individual patients.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026
To address this issue, I ran a regression that used the period before ChatGPT’s launch as a sort of “pre-treatment” period that also controlled for things like the worker’s education and earnings.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
I’ve taken a wrong turn somewhere, because I get answers to a lot of questions, but not to the most important question of all: How does Algernon’s regression affect the basic hypothesis of the experiment?
From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
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They had run the regressions, conducted the robustness checks, and done the work.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
A simple regression showed that — including similar control variables as in prior regressions — the likelihood of private listings and sales to investors increases with age.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 13, 2026
“If key departures slow iteration, cause quality regressions, or reduce community trust, the open-source flywheel weakens.”
From Barron's ● Mar. 17, 2026
Former audio programmer Isaac Hudd says "mistakes started piling up" during crunch, and says "regressions", where one team would fix a bug only for another to unwittingly bring it back to life, became increasingly common.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2025
The flight instructors mistakenly attributed the pilots’ deterioration to their praise of them, and likewise the pilots’ improvement to their criticism; both, however, were simply regressions to the more likely mean performance.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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