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model
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Cut-offs for clinical variables were taken from the predictive models of Farr etal.
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Energy management Science offers a key to solving environmental problems by providing more data to construct better predictive models .
power
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The debate concerning the factual consequences of insider dealing has centred mainly on the predictive power of economics.
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Now let us consider the predictive power of factor rewards.
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Such a theory would have no predictive power because one could never measure all the infinite number of parameters.
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The reduced predictive power of the former test in treated coeliac disease patients could be explained in different ways.
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We have already seen how the naive inductivist accounts for the explanatory and predictive power of science.
validity
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So far, this discussion has examined the usefulness of psychological tests in selection procedures in terms of their predictive validity .
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Personality tests have not been found to have such high predictive validity as ability tests.
value
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While it is possible to identify accurately those patients in low-risk groups the positive predictive value of many tests remains poor.
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However, by taking such a high cut-off point the specificity and positive predictive value of the test were reduced.
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Conclusions are often discordant, however, and the predictive value of the results is often difficult to assess from the data.
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Not only is the predictive value of the signal enriched by learning, but the characteristics of the signal are also enriched.
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To assess the predictive value of these features we undertook prospective surveillance of patients at high risk of primary melanoma.
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Although its predictive value has not been proved, it warrants urgent evaluation.
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Future estimates will probably prove more reliable and have more predictive value .
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Further studies are planned to assess the predictive values of this test in populations where achlorhydria is less prevalent.
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Conclusions are often discordant, however, and the predictive value of the results is often difficult to assess from the data.
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Furthermore, rules are not necessarily predictive of behaviour in any straight forward manner.
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Future advances in technology may disclose other, more sensitive markers of cell proliferation whose predictive accuracy is greater.
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However, such statistics are descriptive, nor predictive , and must be treated with caution.
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However, such theories have limited predictive capability in that we can not measure the individual's perception of values.
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In its place, realism posited a predictive science of law rooted in the experimental methods of social science.
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Newton's physical theories, however, are a good example of how a scientific theory may be predictive as well as explanatory.
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While it is possible to identify accurately those patients in low-risk groups the positive predictive value of many tests remains poor.