What does regression to the mean, mean? Employers, lovers, researchers and investors have all been fooled by this statistical concept, but it's actually a doddle, explains Gary Smith.

Human nature finds it much too easy to dismiss regression to the mean, but those that do will ultimately find that this rule of statistics cannot be ignored forever.

In statistics, "regression to the mean" is the phenomenon by which if one sample of a certain variable tends toward the extreme, the next sample is more likely to to tend to the mean average of ...

Regression to the mean is a concern for studies of health care programs that are often implemented in response to extreme signals like advanced disease, high expenditures, or excessive prescribing.

Regression to the mean has been proven mathematically for many types of statistics and is highly useful in health, insurance, to casinos and in risk management, e.g., for flight safety.

John Jerrim, Anna Vignoles, Social mobility, regression to the mean and the cognitive development of high ability children from disadvantaged homes, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A ...

"Regression to the mean" was the bane of my undergraduate statistics class. We knew that it was out there, and that the final exam would have a question about it, but no-one understood it or had ever ...

Defense Mechanisms Why It Will Probably Be OK Regression to the mean and everyday life. Posted July 6, 2022 | Reviewed by Gary Drevitch ...