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Statistic Notes: Regression towards the mean
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The statistical term “regression,” from a Latin root meaning “going back,” was first used by Francis Galton in his paper “Regression towards Mediocrity in Hereditary Stature.”1 Galton related the heights of children to the average height of their parents, which he called the mid- parent height (figure). Children and parents had the same mean height of 68.2 inches. The ranges differed, however, because the mid-parent height was an average of two …
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Metadata
- Authors
- Bland, J. M., & Altman, D. G.
- Affiliations
- St George's Hospital (GB)
- St George's, University of London (GB)
- ORCID
- Altman, D G
- Venue
- BMJ
- Publisher
- BMJ
- Published
- 1994-06-04
- Volume
- 308
- Issue
- 6942
- Pages
- 1499
- ISSN
- 0007-1447 (ISSN-L)
- 0959-8138
- 1468-5833
- PMC
- PMC2540330
- OpenAlex
- W142956752
- Cited by
- 547
- References
- 17
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 3.96
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- www.bmj.com/company/legal-information/terms-conditions/legal-information/tdm-licencepolicy (tdm)
- Locations
- BMJ (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Statistics and Probability › Statistical Methods in Epidemiology
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Statistics and Probability › Probabilistic Statistics in Medicine
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Statistics and Probability › Probability and Statistical Research
- Keywords
- Francis Galton
- MeSH terms
- Body Height, Humans, Regression Analysis
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