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Definition of Regression coefficient
1. Noun. 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.
Generic synonyms: Parametric Statistic
Group relationships: Linear Regression, Rectilinear Regression
Lexicographical Neighbors of Regression Coefficient
Literary usage of Regression coefficient
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Principles of Breeding: A Treatise on Thremmatology Or the Principles and by Eugene Davenport, Henry Lewis Rietz (1907)
"SECTION V — THE regression coefficient From the correlation coefficient and the
... To obtain the regression coefficient of the weight of ears relative to ..."
2. Principles of Breeding: A Treatise on Thremmatology Or the Principles and by Eugene Davenport, Henry Lewis Rietz (1907)
"SECTION V —THE regression coefficient From the correlation coefficient and the
... To obtain the regression coefficient of the weight of ears relative to ..."
3. Labor in the Rural Household Economy of the Zairian Basin by Tshikala B. Tshibaka (1992)
"The regression coefficient for the male labor per capital variable (Lmp/Kt) and
for its quadratic term are positive and statistically different from zero. ..."
4. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"Negative regression coefficient, most probable value > 100. • This value is a
result of the negative regression coefficient which may be caused by isotope ..."
5. Fundamentals of Educational Measurement with the Elements of Statistical Method by Chester Arthur Gregory (1922)
"The following computation shows that these fractions are equal to the regression
coefficients. Let the regression coefficient r— be represented by pj. ..."
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