The simplest and perhaps most important form of predictability is linear predictability, as measured by sample autocorrelations.
Thus, even the excised words from the high predictability sentences were more intelligible relative to those excised from the low predictability sentences.
Instead, the author seeks to develop generalisable theories that have empirical predictability, drawing heavily upon survey data in addition to institutional analysis.
Second, there is the problem of predictability/coordination.
Overall there is a trend towards conformity and predictability.
This enhances the three cornerstones of democracy introduced at the outset of this study: transparency, predictability and accountability.
This paradigm was intended to determine if participants could inhibit their autonomic reactivity while anticipating a noxious burst of noise that varied in its predictability.
Laws are necessary to control bureaucrats implementing decisions of governors, and to introduce predictability and thus rationality in the administration of government.