The phrase "a regression to the" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing a return to a previous state, often in a negative sense, such as in social, economic, or technological discussions.
Example: "The recent policy changes have led to a regression to the outdated practices that we had worked hard to overcome."
Alternatives: "a return to the" or "a backslide to the".
There will be a regression to the mean.
Instead, there are business disappointments, debts, and marrying down — a regression to the mean.
Is this the fall that Sornette and company were predicting or just a coincidence, a regression to the mean?
The underlying idea that there are discrete areas for different tasks is indeed neo-phrenology, and, intellectually, represents a regression to the nineteenth century.
It may simply be his age combined with a regression to the mean from a squad that played above themselves last season.
To me they represented a regression to the first encounter with language; they represented a chance to reconfigure the link between the mellifluity of self and the concreteness of utterance.
It's not only a lost opportunity, it's a regression to the past". Aides to Karzai said his aim in holding such talks is to ensure a trouble-free election, not to sabotage it.
It is still early enough in the season to start a regression to the mean, and the Knicks might cool off as the season wears on.
What tends to happen in a regression-to-the-mean world, which of course is what we live in, is that after bad situations tend to come better situations, simply because of chance.
For each treatment site, accident changes were examined using after-before comparisons, accounting for changes that had occurred in the comparison-group sites and for a regression-to-the-mean.
This is a necessary approach in a naturalistic study but entails the risk of a regression-to-the-mean effect [ 26] and therefore a greater likelihood to find statistically significant improvements in the more severely affected inpatient group.
