Describe the concept of Regression toward the Mean.

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Describe the concept of Regression toward the Mean.

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Regression toward the mean:

This is the phenomenon that occurs usually when a non-random sample is selected from a population and then two variables of interest are measured and they are found to be imperfectly correlated. The smaller the correlation between the two variables then more extreme values are obtained from the population mean and this will lead to greater effect of regression towards mean. In another words, we measure a variable, first time it is showing extreme values and then second time measure the variable it will be closer to the average or the mean.

 

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