predictive

Helping you work out what is likely to happen in the future.

• The model has strong predictive power.
• Past behavior is often predictive of future choices.
• We tested the predictive accuracy of the system.

How to use it: predictive of something (These early signs are predictive of later success.)

Common phrases: predictive model, predictive power, predictive of something, predictive variable

Showing how reliably a test result indicates whether a condition is present or absent.

• The test has a high predictive value.
• Its positive predictive value varies with disease frequency.
• Doctors compared the negative predictive values of both tests.

Common phrases: predictive value, positive predictive value, negative predictive value

A conditional sentence that says what will happen if a particular condition is met.

• This sentence is a predictive.
• The class compared predictives with other conditional sentences.
• A predictive links a condition to an expected result.

Similar words: predictive conditional

Common phrases: a predictive conditional, classify a predictive

Data produced by a statistical model using information estimated from real observations.

• The model generated a predictive.
• We compared the predictive with the observed data.
• These predictives use estimates obtained from the original sample.

Common phrases: posterior predictive, generate a predictive