REGRESSION COEFFICIENT as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • when the regression line is linear (y = ax + b) the regression coefficient is the constant (a) that represents the rate of change of one variable (y) as a function of changes in the other (x)
   • it is the slope of the regression line
   Hypernyms(s) regression coefficient is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • parametric statistic (what does parametric statistic mean?)