What does regression coefficient mean?
• REGRESSION COEFFICIENT (noun) The noun REGRESSION COEFFICIENT has 1 sense: 1. when the regression line is linear (y = ax + b) the regression coefficient is the constant (a) that represents the rate of change of one variable (y) as a function of changes in the other (x); it is the slope of the regression line Familiarity information: REGRESSION COEFFICIENT used as a noun is very rare.