predictive
Useful in predicting.
Adjective
- Useful in predicting.
- The amount of rain in April is predictive of the number of mosquitoes in May.
- Describing a predictor.
- Expressing the expected accuracy of a statistical measure or of a diagnostic test.
Origin
Borrowed from Latin praedictivus, from praedico. Equivalent to predict + -ive.
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counterpredictive nonpredictive predictive coding predictively predictive market predictiveness predictive parser predictive power predictive programming predictive text predictive texting predictivity prequential unpredictive
Noun
- 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.").
- 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...
- In contrast, English-speaking children appropriately differentiate if future predictives from when future predictives, a distinction relevant for English but not for, say, German. - 2008, Virginia C. Mueller Gathercole,...
- Simulated data generated from a statistical model, based on the estimates for the real data.
- 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...
- Alternatively, we can use prior predictives to help define prior distributions. - 2018, Simon Farrell, Stephan Lewandowsky, Computational Modeling of Cognition and Behavior, page 308: