Regression vs Retrospect - What's the difference?
regression | retrospect |
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.
consideration of past times
* 1853 , , "Villette":
* 1976 , edition, ISBN 0820311286, page 298:
To look or refer back to; to reflect on
* 1804: Alexander Hamilton, Letter to John Adams (Bartlett) - To give a correct idea of the circumstances.., it may be useful to retrospect to an early period.
As nouns the difference between regression and retrospect
is that regression is an action of regressing, a return to a previous state while retrospect is consideration of past times.As a verb retrospect is
to look or refer back to; to reflect on.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)retrospect
English
Noun
(en noun)- My mind, calmer and stronger now than last night, made for itself some imperious rules, prohibiting under deadly penalties all weak retrospect of happiness past; commanding a patient journeying through the wilderness of the present...
- Whether, like Colin, in retrospect Willie Lee and Baptist would feel that what has vanished was greater than what was achieved, is not something we can predict.