Henian Chen
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Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, College of Public Health, and Director, Biostatistics Core, Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute, College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa. His contributions to SAGE Publications's Encyclopedia of Research Design (2010) formed the basis of his contributions to Britannica.
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Regression to the mean (RTM), a widespread statistical phenomenon that occurs when a nonrandom sample is selected from a population and the two variables of interest measured are imperfectly correlated. The smaller the correlation between these two variables, the more extreme the obtained value is…
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