Regression to the Mean (also known as regression toward the mean, reversion to the mean, or reversion to mediocrity) refers to the statistical phenomenon in which extreme values, whether unusually ...

"Regression to the mean" was the bane of my undergraduate statistics class. We knew that it was out there, and that the final exam would have a question about it, but no-one understood it or had ever ...

CINCINNATI — Call these the Regression Games. In the science of statistics — and a baseball season is nothing if not a living, breathing study of the science of statistics — there is a phenomenon ...