regression

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Freddie Freeman, Mookie Betts and Teoscar Hernández all showed signs of regression last season.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 23, 2026

This regression is usually “incremental and often inconspicuous, spanning years or even decades,” the report’s authors write.

From Slate • Mar. 17, 2026

Knowing how much Nasdaq stocks moved this year up to the war explains 60% of moves in the past week based on a regression analysis.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 8, 2026

"We saw total tumor regression and long-term prevention of recurrence, all without seeing any systemic toxicity."

From Science Daily • Mar. 1, 2026

This phenomenon leads to nonsense when people attribute the regression to the mean to some particular scientific law, rather than to the natural behavior of any random quantity.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos