regression coefficient
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1. when the regression line is linear (y = ax + b) the regression coefficient is the constant (a) that represents the rate of change of one variable (y) as a function of changes in the other (x); it is the slope of the regression line (noun.cognition)
| hypernym | : | parametric statistic, |
| definition | : | any statistic computed by procedures that assume the data were drawn from a particular distribution (noun.cognition) |
| domain category | : | statistics, |
| definition | : | a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters (noun.cognition) |
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