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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
retrodict .
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Examples
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Evolution retrodicted that a nested hierarchy classification scheme would be useful.
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That plus the lack of GCM-retrodicted warming means whatever was helping formainifera to grow in the early 20th century was not CO2-induced warming.
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Bayesian inference, retrodicted probabilities can never be equally canonical or unique and they always depend on priors.
The Reference Frame 2010
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The weak relationship between observed changes in abundance and trends in the retrodicted suitability of the climate for each species
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In addition, population trends showed a near-significant positive correlation with retrodicted trends in the suitability of the climate for each species (CST), based upon the climatic envelope models and observed recent climatic change.
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I am probably in a minority, but I think a retrodiction is every bit as good as a prediction - after all, Newton retrodicted Kepler’s ellipses, relativity retrodicted the precession of the perihelion of Mercury, and there are probably more, but I am tired today.
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