Regression or regressions may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

  • Regression (film), a 2015 horror film by Alejandro Amenábar, starring Ethan Hawke and Emma Watson
  • Regression (magazine), an Australian punk rock fanzine (1982–1984)
  • Regressions (album), 2010 album by Cleric

Computing

  • Software regression, the appearance of a bug in functionality that was working correctly in a previous revision
  • Regression testing, a software testing method which seeks to uncover regression bugs

Hypnosis

  • Age regression in therapy, a process claiming to retrieve memories
  • Past life regression, a process claiming to retrieve memories of previous lives

Science

  • Marine regression, coastal advance due to falling sea level, the opposite of marine transgression
  • Regression (medicine), a characteristic of diseases to express lighter symptoms or less extent (mainly for tumors), without disappearing totally
  • Regression (psychology), a defensive reaction to some unaccepted impulses
  • Nodal regression, the movement of the nodes of an object in orbit, in the opposite direction to the motion of the object

Statistics

  • Regression analysis, a statistical technique for estimating the relationships among variables. There are several types of regression:
  • Linear regression
  • Simple linear regression
  • Logistic regression
  • Nonlinear regression
  • Nonparametric regression
  • Robust regression
  • Stepwise regression
  • Regression toward the mean, a common statistical phenomenon

See also

  • Infinite regress, a problem in epistemology
  • Regress (disambiguation)