prior expectation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpriorandexpectation
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prior
adjective[before noun]
uk/praɪər/us/praɪr/
formal
existing or happening before something else, or before a ...
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expectation
noun
uk/ˌek.spekˈteɪ.ʃən/us/ˌek.spekˈteɪ.ʃən/
the feeling that good things are going to happen in ...
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Ourpriorexpectationabout the positive sign of the income term reflects a model in which environmental quality enters directly into households' utility functions.
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The second part is that ironic utterances must allude to somepriorexpectationnorm, or convention that has been violated in one way or another.
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Both participants with no prior expectations, then, emerged more optimistic.
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In the estimation of the collection of the extractive good, we again use a sample selection framework to test whether our prior expectations are manifested.
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All of these variables show statistically significant coefficients whose signs conform to prior expectations.
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At one-month and six-month forecast horizons, consistent with our prior expectations, any gains from including money are unimportant.
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Goldreich (2007) proposed that the cutaneous rabbit illusion and the tau effect both result from the same low-speedpriorexpectation.
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If these questions cannot be answered, then the prior expectations of what the behavior should have been (according to the straw-man null hypothesis) should be considered unreasonable.
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Cap procedures compel political attention by their crude threat of benefit reductions whenever annual program costs exceed prior expectations.
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Of course, given the number of apparent irrationalities and moral failings identified by social psychologists, no one seems to be taking these prior expectations very seriously.
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This assessment depends on prior expectations of overall quality compared to the actual performance received.
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Attributional processing, however, seems to only occur when the event is unexpected or conflicting with prior expectations.
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Schema theory predicts that information matching prior expectations will be more easily stored and recalled than information that does not match.
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Mee-ting blind dates are group dates with no prior expectations of commitment, and are often used by university students.
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Pacepa exceeds all prior expectations in this regard.
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