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Q.The term regression was first used by :
(a) Spearman
(b) Newton
(c) Galton
(d) Pearson
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In the statistical methods topic of the Tamil Nadu HSC Commerce syllabus, regression measures the average relationship between two variables and is used for estimation and prediction.
The term 'regression' was first used by Sir Francis Galton in 1877 during his study of the heights of parents and their children. He observed that the heights of children of unusually tall or short parents tended to move back (regress) towards the average height of the population — a phenome …
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