The tonality of a frequency bin 
is estimated by looking
at the predictability of the phase and magnitude of that
Fourier coefficient. The predictors are defined as follows:
The phase is thus linearly extrapolated from two former time instances, and magnitude is simply assumed to be the same as last. This gives no prediction error for one stationary sine within the frequency band. The tonality is then estimated from the maximum prediction error of the last two phase values and the last magnitude:
where 
and
. This model gives
a weighted average t of about 0.9 for highly tonal sting music,
and 0.3 for white
noise. Of course the parameters in the masking threshold (section
3.2.5) estimation are
adapted to these (non-ideal) values.