Regression vs Classification - What's the difference?
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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.
The act of forming into a class or classes; a distribution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some common relations or attributes.
* {{quote-book
, year=1937-1952
, author=Jorge Luis Borges
, title=Other Inquisitions
* 1997 : Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault , page 69 (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)
As nouns the difference between regression and classification
is that regression is regression while classification is the act of forming into a class or classes; a distribution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc, according to some common relations or attributes.regression
English
(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.
Antonyms
* progressionDerived terms
* linear regression * regression to the mean * regression testing (computing) * regression therapy (psychotherapy)classification
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=On those remote pages it is written that animals are divided into (a) those that belong to the Emperor, (b) embalmed ones, (c) those that are trained, (d) suckling pigs, (e) mermaids, (f) fabulous ones, (g) stray dogs, (h) those that are included in this classification, (i) those that tremble as if they were mad, (j) innumerable ones, (k) those drawn with a verfy fine camel's hair brush, (l) others, (m) those that have just broken a flower vase, (n) those that resemble flies from a distance.}}
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Knowledge replaced universal resemblance with finite differences. History was arrested and turned into tables …
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