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forecastability en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From forecast + -ability.

Meanings

1. (uncountable, usually) A 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

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