Predictive power
Ability of a scientific theory to generate testable predictions / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about predictive power in the context of philosophy of science. For a statistical measure of predictive power, see Mean squared prediction error.
The concept of predictive power, the power of a scientific theory to generate testable predictions, differs from explanatory power and descriptive power (where phenomena that are already known are retrospectively explained or described by a given theory) in that it allows a prospective test of theoretical understanding.