retrodicting

Verb

retrodict (third-person singular simple present retrodicts, present participle retrodicting, simple past and past participle retrodicted)

1. To attempt to estimate the previous state from the present.
   • Many are impressed by the fact that climate models can "retrodict" climatic change—that is, use past climatic data (say, from the 1860s) to predict climatic data from the less-distant past (say, from the 1920s). They should not be.2013, Jamie Whyte, The Wall Street Journal, Jamie Whyte: Science Says So, Suckers!