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Comorbidity emerged as the best predictor of 2-year survival.
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The best predictor of future performance is past performance.
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One school of thought affirms that use of the existing collection is the best predictor .
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This action has been shown to be a good predictor of therapeutic effectiveness in trigeminal neuralgia.
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Cole and Meyer 35 found that early productivity is a good rough predictor of later productivity.
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Nicola Woods found that in a business setting, gender was a better predictor than status of who would interrupt whom.
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Thinness at birth is a particularly strong predictor of death before 65 years of age.
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H pylori infection was a strong predictor of ulcer recurrences.
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As Oliver James pointed out, the most significant predictor of being violent is simply being a man.
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Demographic studies have shown clearly that low social class or disadvantaged status is a potent predictor of school failure.
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It remained a significant predictor when adjusted for clinical, demographic, Holter data and ejection fraction.
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None the less, class remained the most important predictor of how an elector might vote.
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Personality has not been shown by industrial psychologists to be a very helpful predictor of performance.
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The best predictor of future performance is past performance.
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This action has been shown to be a good predictor of therapeutic effectiveness in trigeminal neuralgia.
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Weather predictor systems based on neural networks also key off a large volume of past data to forecast future conditions.