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Aimel Zafar; Manzoor Khan; Muhammad Yousaf – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2024
Subjects with initially extreme observations upon remeasurement are found closer to the population mean. This tendency of observations toward the mean is called regression to the mean (RTM) and can make natural variation in repeated data look like real change. Studies, where subjects are selected on a baseline criterion, should be guarded against…
Descriptors: Measurement, Regression (Statistics), Statistical Distributions, Intervention