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regression

[ri-gresh-uhn] / rɪˈgrɛʃ ən /


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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

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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