My interest in explanatory journalism was probably born as early as the late 1970s when a frustrated reader handed me a copy of an editorial titled “Curb State Mandates.” ...

There, many find explanatory power essential or useless, depending on their needs. In contrast, the agreement about testable predictions was near uniform: they are essential.

This article generalizes the explanationist account of inference to the best explanation (IBE). It draws a clear distinction between IBE and abduction and presents abduction as the first step of IBE.

Beside the model, the other input into a regression analysis is some relevant sample data, consisting of the observed values of the dependent and explanatory variables for a sample of members of the ...

The recognition of economic events in accounting earnings tends to lag that of the market. An informed market recognizes the effects of economic events when they occur, but earnings recognition must ...