Regression analysis

The term "regression" was coined by Francis Galton, a cousin of Charles Darwin, in the nineteenth century to describe a biological phenomenon. The phenomenon was that the heights of descendants of tall ancestors tend to regress down towards a normal average. For Galton, regression had only this biological meaning, but his work was later extended by Udny Yule and Karl Pearson to a more general statistical context. At the present time, the term "regression" is often synonymous with "least-squares curve fitting".

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The term "regression" was coined by Francis Galton, a cousin of Charles Darwin, in the nineteenth century to describe a biological phenomenon. The phenomenon wasthat the heights of descendants of tall ancestors tend to regress down towards a normal average. For Galton, regression had only this biological meaning, but hiswork was later extended by Udny Yule and Karl Pearson to amore general statistical context. At the present time, the term "regression" is often synonymous with"least-squares curve fitting".