Sentences with phrase «called regression to the mean»

This tendency for trends to flip with the passage of time is called regression to the mean.

Not exact matches

Over a long enough time period such effects tend to cancel out (a phenomenon called «regression to the mean»), thus it is unlikely that a firm is consistently high performing just because of chance events.»

This tendency toward mediocrity — sometimes called the Sports Illustrated jinx because an athlete is likely to enter a career lull after appearing on the cover — is a variation on a mathematical principle known as regression to the mean.

Another potential explanation for the exceptional gains made by schools facing voucher competition is that their extremely low initial scores are affected by a statistical tendency called «regression to the mean.»

If there is a reliable and helpful principle at works in our markets, my choice would be the ones the statisticians call «regression to the mean».

A recent paper by Loehle & Scafetta (L&S 2011) in a journal known as the «Bentham Open Atmospheric Science Journal «(also discussed at Skeptical Science) presents some analysis using regression to describe cycles in the global mean temperature, showing us many strange tricks one can do with curves and sinusoids, in something they call «empirical decomposition» (whatever that means).