Clustering vs Regression - What's the difference?
clustering | regression |
The action of the verb to cluster.
A grouping of a number of similar things.
(demographics) The grouping of a population based on ethnicity, economics or religion.
(computing) The undesirable, contiguous grouping of elements in a hash table.
(writing) A prewriting technique consisting of writing ideas down on a sheet of paper around a central idea within a circle, with the related ideas radially joined to the circle using rays.
An action of regressing, a return to a previous state.
* 1899: Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class
(psychotherapy) A psychotherapeutic method whereby healing is facilitated by inducing the patient to act out behaviour typical of an earlier developmental stage.
(statistics) An analytic method to measure the association of one or more independent variables with a dependent variable.
(statistics) An equation using specified and associated data for two or more variables such that one variable can be estimated from the remaining variable(s).
(programming) The reappearance of a bug in a piece of software that had previously been fixed.
As nouns the difference between clustering and regression
is that clustering is the action of the verb to cluster while regression is regression.As a verb clustering
is .clustering
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Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* clustering coefficient * clustering illusion * declusteringregression
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(wikipedia regression)Noun
(en noun)- Few of these groups or communities that are classed as "savage" show no traces of regression from a more advanced cultural stage.