regression

regression

名词 regression:

an abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely

同义词：arrested development, fixation, infantile fixation

(psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which you flee from reality by assuming a more infantile state

the relation between selected values of x and observed values of y (from which the most probable value of y can be predicted for any value of x)

同义词：simple regression, regression toward the mean, statistical regression

returning to a former state

同义词：regress, reversion, retrogression, retroversion