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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
predictive
adjective
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■ NOUN
model
▪ Cut-offs for clinical variables were taken from the predictive models of Farr etal.
▪ Energy management Science offers a key to solving environmental problems by providing more data to construct better predictive models.
power
▪ The debate concerning the factual consequences of insider dealing has centred mainly on the predictive power of economics.
▪ Now let us consider the predictive power of factor rewards.
▪ Such a theory would have no predictive power because one could never measure all the infinite number of parameters.
▪ The reduced predictive power of the former test in treated coeliac disease patients could be explained in different ways.
▪ We have already seen how the naive inductivist accounts for the explanatory and predictive power of science.
validity
▪ So far, this discussion has examined the usefulness of psychological tests in selection procedures in terms of their predictive validity.
▪ Personality tests have not been found to have such high predictive validity as ability tests.
value
▪ While it is possible to identify accurately those patients in low-risk groups the positive predictive value of many tests remains poor.
▪ However, by taking such a high cut-off point the specificity and positive predictive value of the test were reduced.
▪ Conclusions are often discordant, however, and the predictive value of the results is often difficult to assess from the data.
▪ Not only is the predictive value of the signal enriched by learning, but the characteristics of the signal are also enriched.
▪ To assess the predictive value of these features we undertook prospective surveillance of patients at high risk of primary melanoma.
▪ Although its predictive value has not been proved, it warrants urgent evaluation.
▪ Future estimates will probably prove more reliable and have more predictive value.
▪ Further studies are planned to assess the predictive values of this test in populations where achlorhydria is less prevalent.
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▪ Conclusions are often discordant, however, and the predictive value of the results is often difficult to assess from the data.
▪ Furthermore, rules are not necessarily predictive of behaviour in any straight forward manner.
▪ Future advances in technology may disclose other, more sensitive markers of cell proliferation whose predictive accuracy is greater.
▪ However, such statistics are descriptive, nor predictive, and must be treated with caution.
▪ However, such theories have limited predictive capability in that we can not measure the individual's perception of values.
▪ In its place, realism posited a predictive science of law rooted in the experimental methods of social science.
▪ Newton's physical theories, however, are a good example of how a scientific theory may be predictive as well as explanatory.
▪ While it is possible to identify accurately those patients in low-risk groups the positive predictive value of many tests remains poor.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Predictive

Predictive \Pre*dict"ive\, a. [L. praedictivus.] Foretelling; prophetic; foreboding. -- Pre*dict"ive*ly, adv.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
predictive

1650s, from Late Latin praedictivus, from praedict-, past participle stem of praedicere (see predict).

Wiktionary
predictive

a. 1 Useful in predicting. 2 (context computing English) Describing a predictor. 3 (Medicine) Expressing the expected accuracy of a statistical measure or of a diagnostic test

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predictive

adj. of or relating to prediction; having value for making predictions [syn: prognostic, prognosticative]

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Usage examples of "predictive".

Efforts, however, are underway to establish a viable predictive model which will integrate the various tectonic, geologic, hydrological, and seismic dynamics presently under investigation by Geosciences Department personnel.

Dekkeret himself had only the most casual interest in the persistence of the mantic arts as a phenomenon of modern culture, and no belief whatever in their predictive value.

The predictive algorithm accepts as input any music, or non-music, and tells what the musicality of that input is, and predicts its effect on the human listener.

One of the main insights of quantum mechanics is that our predictive power is fundamentally limited to asserting that such-and-such outcome will occur with such-and-such probability.

This scholarly essay concurs in many essential respects with the thesis that Canadian and other non American Root Cults, in contrast to all but what Phelps and Phelps argue are isolated pockets of antihistorical American stelliformism, persist so queerly in directing their reverent fealty toward principles, quote, "often not only isomorphic with but activally opposed to the cultists' own individual pleasure, comfort, cut bono, or entertainment as to be all but outside the ken of both the sophisticated predictive models of psychosocial science and the rudimentary comprehension of human reason.

Preliminary predictive databasing indicates posi­tive ozonation yields without statistically significant shifts in lateral ecosystem equilibria.

What is more, we shall never, no matter how refined our predictive tools become, be able to forecast the exact sequence of future states of the society.

Even more predictive, the family of the girl he had chosen to replace his dead wife had refused to accept the three lengths of roanoke he had offered as her purchase price.

Such an institute, staffed with top caliber men and women from all the sciences and social sciences, would take as its purpose the collection and systematic integration of predictive reports generated by scholars and imaginative thinkers in all the intellectual disciplines all over the world.