Affiliation:
1. Department of Statistics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA,
Abstract
The simple yet subtle concept of regression towards the mean is reviewed historically. Verbal, geometric, and mathematical expressions of the concept date to the discoverer of the concept, Francis Galton. That discovery and subsequent understanding (and misunderstanding) of the concept are surveyed.
Subject
Health Information Management,Statistics and Probability,Epidemiology
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