Medical Definition of Law of regression to mean

1. In a population mating at random, the progeny of a parent with an extreme value for a measurable phenotype will tend on average to have values nearer the population mean than in the extreme parent. See: law of regression to mean. Synonym: law of regression to mean. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Law Of Regression To Mean

law of large numbers
law of motion
law of multiple proportions
law of nations
law of nature
law of parsimony
law of partial pressures
law of polar excitation
law of priority
law of proximity
law of recapitulation
law of reciprocal proportions
law of referred pain
law of refraction
law of regression to mean (current term)
law of segregation
law of similarity
law of similars
law of sines
law of specific nerve energies
law of the excluded middle
law of the heart
law of the jungle
law of the land
law of the minimum
law of the tongue
law of thermodynamics
law of unintended consequences
law of volumes

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