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Regression toward the mean
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Regression toward the mean
The tendency that a random variable will ultimately have a value closer to its mean value.


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It is more a case of reversion to the mean as far as MSM is concerned," reckons Ahmad, who believes that there was no need for governments in the region to pump in funds that could only provide a short-term solution.
Hence, besides central bank interventions, different beliefs among market participants regarding the equilibrium level of real exchange rates have likely contributed to the nonlinear reversion to the mean in these countries.
With respect to students and test scores, reversion to the mean suggests that students with scores in the upper or lower tail of the test-score distribution are likely to perform closer to the average when tested more than once.
 
 
 
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