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regression to the mean

noun

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  1. The phenomenon by which extreme examples from any set of data are likely to be followed…

    The phenomenon by which extreme examples from any set of data are likely to be followed by examples which are less extreme; a tendency towards the average of any sample. For example, the offspring of two very tall individuals tend to be tall, but closer to the average (mean) than either of their parents.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for regression to the mean. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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