Predictive

/pɹɪˈdɪk.tɪv/ · adjective

Meaning

Useful in predicting..

Definitions by Sense

1. Useful in predicting.
2. (computing) Describing a predictor.
3. (medicine) Expressing the expected accuracy of a statistical measure or of a diagnostic test.
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.").
5. (statistics) Simulated data generated from a statistical model, based on the estimates for the real data.

Example Sentences

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

Also, as we have seen in the preceding chapter, predictive conditionals show a high degree of integration thanks to the patterns of verb forms which are characteristic for predictives and which normally do not mix freely with other, non-predictive forms.

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.

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

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Word Forms

• more predictive
• most predictive
• predictives

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