Objectives: To assess the effectiveness of disease managementas an adjunct to treatment for chronic illnesses, such as asthma,and to evaluate whether the statistical phenomenon of regressionto the ...

The Texas Rangers have been one of the most disappointing teams in baseball this season. Coming into the year, many predicted they would challenge for the American League West title, returning to ...

Regression to the mean has the potential to fool everyone, even NBA coaches building systems of positive and negative reinforcement. These are challenging times, but one thing I’ve enjoyed about ...

On Thursday, ESPN analyst David Hale ranked all 136 FBS football teams in tiers. Hale put BYU in the "Regression to the mean (the bad kind)" category. "If you look up and down the list of ...

Sir Francis Galton coined the term “regression to the mean” — or “regression towards mediocrity,” as he originally called it, sometimes also called “reversion to the mean.” It is now a widely used ...

In the late 19th century, English polymath Sir Francis Galton noted that tall parents often had kids shorter than they were, while short parents often ended up with taller kids. He dubbed this ...