Predictive

Quick meaning: Predictive is an adjective meaning Useful in predicting.

Meaning

Useful in predicting.

More Meanings

1. (computing) Describing a predictor.
2. (medicine) Expressing the expected accuracy of a statistical measure or of a diagnostic test.
3. (statistics) Simulated data generated from a statistical model, based on the estimates for the real data.
4. (grammar) A conditional statement that includes a prediction in the dependent clause (e.g. "if it rains, the game will be cancelled", "give her an inch and she'll take a mile.").

Example Sentences

The amount of rain in April is predictive of the number of mosquitoes in May.

Alternatively, we can use prior predictives to help define prior distributions.

In contrast, English-speaking children appropriately differentiate if future predictives from when future predictives, a distinction relevant for English but not for, say, German.

However, the posterior predictives combine two sources of information: what we might term the structural effect of WIC participation as well as an unobserved correlation between the errors of the participation and outcome equations.

Word Forms

• predictives

Synonyms for predictive

Depending on context, synonyms include prophetic, prognostic, prognosticative.

Antonyms for predictive

Common opposites include reactive.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include prognosticative, prognostic, prophetic, forecast, forecasted, foreseeable.

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