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regression, in psychology: see defense mechanism defense mechanism, in psychoanalysis, any of a variety of unconscious personality reactions which the ego uses to protect the conscious mind from threatening feelings and perceptions. ..... Click the link for more information. . regressionIn statistics, a process for determining a line or curve that best represents the general trend of a data set. Linear regression results in a line of best fit, for which the sum of the squares of the vertical distances between the proposed line and the points of the data set are minimized (see least squares method). Other types of regression may be based on higher-degree polynomial functions or exponential functions. A quadratic regression, for example, uses a quadratic function (second-degree polynomial function) to produce a parabola of best fit.
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10) Although we did not examine our patient for femoral neck retroversion, our patient had a range-of-motion pattern that is often found in patients with femoral neck retroversion (30 [degrees] greater hip lateral rotation than medial rotation). Dysphagia rehabilitation, including strengthening exercises to improve the patient's ability to achieve epiglottic retroversion and pharyngeal bolus propulsion, led to a decrease in the amount of residue after swallowing, eliminated the aspiration, and improved the patient's quality of life. Given his self-image as an intellectual of the left, Foster is bound to oppose what he calls the "work of retroversion so pervasive in culture and politics today . |
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