forecastability

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noun

A measure of the degree to which something may be forecast with accuracy.

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Meanings

nounforecastability (usually uncountable, plural forecastabilities)

plural forecastabilities

  1. uncountableusuallyA measure of the degree to which something may be forecast with accuracy.

    My aim with this paper is to equip forecasters with some cross-disciplinary theory on forecastability and to provide practical techniques for assessing how forecastable a historical time series is.

    2009, Peter M. Catt, "Forecastability: Insights from Physics, Graphical Decomposition, and Information Theory", in Foresight: The International Journal of Applied Forecasting, issue 13, pages 24–33

Origin

From forecast + -ability.

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