Regression

Regression

Regression could refer to:

* Regression (psychology), a defensive reaction to some unaccepted impulses
* Past life regression, (psychology) a process claiming to retrieve memories of previous lives
* Software regression, (software engineering) the appearance of a bug which was absent in a previous revision
* Regression testing, a software testing which seeks to uncover regression bugs
* Regression toward the mean, a common statistical phenomenon
* Regression analysis, a curve fitting technique, most often utilizing least squares, used in statistics and econometrics, which can be broken into two categories: linear regression and nonlinear regression
* Infinite regression, a problem in epistemology
* Marine regression (geology), coastal advance due to falling sea level, the opposite of marine transgression
* Regression (medicine), a characteristic of diseases to express lighter symptoms without disappearing totally
* Age regression
* Reading regression, a counter-productive reading habit


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