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Law of regression to mean

Law of regression to mean --> Galton's law

in a population mating at random, the progeny of a parent with an extreme value for a measurable phenotype will tend on average to have values nearer the population mean than in the extreme parent.

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by fcs
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Re: logestic regression models

ohh you mean logestic instead of logistic...yeah my bad..still don't understannd however

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by biology_06er
Thu May 14, 2009 12:30 pm
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: logestic regression models
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Views: 238

Re: logestic regression models

Considering I already mentioned in my post I looked on wiki but still didn't understand it, your link isn't very helpful...nevertheless thanks for pointing out the number one source most people (including myslef) go to anyway.. :P

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by biology_06er
Sat May 09, 2009 7:26 am
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: logestic regression models
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by biology_06er
Thu May 07, 2009 12:21 pm
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: logestic regression models
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