The phrase "a regression from the" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a decline or backward movement from a previous state or condition in various contexts, such as economics, psychology, or technology.
Example: "The recent data indicates a regression from the progress we made last quarter."
Alternatives: "a decline from the" or "a setback from the".
"The proposals represent a regression from the 1921 Constitution," the report says, "which was certainly not a model of its kind".
It enacts a regression from the Christian ethic of "love thy neighbour" back to the pagan privileging of the tribe over the barbarian Other.
That the popular symbol of success the world over is now a big car may mark a regression from the more sensitive age of Stendhal, for whom it was a good carriage; in any case it is.
We illustrate the approach using manufacturing data from Colombia, examining the potential to preserve joint distributions and a regression from the plant productivity literature.
This isn't a particularly laborious task, but it is a regression from the wonderfully easy method of clicking category (I want to watch something funny) then clicking the back and forth arrows and watching different programmes slide past.
The Friday night and Saturday morning looting that led to the curfew marked a regression from the previous night of demonstrations, when protests remained peaceful and new leadership compelled authorities to step back from the militaristic stance they had taken starting Wednesday afternoon.
Much of the text is merely a reaffirmation of previous agreements or worse, a regression from those agreements.
Muni posted a 73percentt on-time performance rate for the 2011 fiscal year, which ended on June 30, a regression from last fiscal year, when the agency tallied a 73.5percentt mark -- the highest in its history.
Series 4's unboxing experience is a regression from all previous models, in my opinion.
And in keeping with the anti-Darwinian premise, it is a hilarious regression from the original, a lower order of being.
The WVTR was calculated according to (1): (1) WVTR = w × x t × A, where w represents weight of the film, A represents the permeation area, and x/ t was calculated by a linear regression from the points of weight gain and time during constant rate period (n = 6).
