predictivepre‧dict‧ive /prɪˈdɪktɪv/ adjective [usually before noun] 
- 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.
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.
nounpredictionpredictability ≠ unpredictabilitypredictoradjectivepredictable ≠ unpredictablepredictiveverbpredictadverbpredictably ≠ unpredictably
Dreams, even vivid ones, have little predictive value.