Regression to the mean: what it is and how to deal with it.

By A. Barnett, J. C. van der Pols, A. Dobson. International Journal of Epidemiology, 2004

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Statistics and Probability

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Citations in the corpus

• First Step in Social Media: Measuring the Influence of Online Management Responses on Customer Satisfaction (2014, background): “The combination suggests that regression toward the mean can be controlled by including the treatment variable and the difference between the prior measure and the mean (Barnett et al. 2005; George et al. 1997).”
• Teacher–student interpersonal relationships and academic motivation within one school year: developmental changes and linkage (2012, background): “Although there is no guarantee that this doubt is erroneous, an examination of the scatter plot of changes, as suggested by Barnett, Van der Pols, and Dobson (2005), does not seem to support the appearance of this phenomenon.”
• Do Students Develop Towards More Deep Approaches to Learning During Studies? A Systematic Review on the Development of Students’ Deep and Surface Approaches to Learning in Higher Education (2017, background): “One of the potential problems with two measurement points is the phenomenon of regression to the mean, which means that the scores in the second measurements tend to be closer to the mean (Barnett et al. 2005).”
• An Empathy-Driven, Conversational Artificial Intelligence Agent (Wysa) for Digital Mental Well-Being: Real-World Data Evaluation Mixed-Methods Study (2018, background): “The authors expected that regression to the mean (whereby values that are initially measured as extreme are more likely to be moderate on subsequent measurement) might play a role in this apparent large improvement [40].”
• Video Games and Spatial Cognition (2010, background): “…Bavelier, 2003, 2006b, 2007; Feng, Spence, & Pratt, 2007) to eliminate the possibility that simple repetition of the criterion spatial task may have been responsible for any improvement, or that the enhancement of performance is due to regression to the mean (Barnett, van der Pols, & Dobson, 2005).”