When she performed the statistical tests again, this time controlling for GNP, it turned out that the murder rate's predictive power disappears, whereas that of the health indicators persists.
Moreover this predictive power is the same for men and for women.
Meanwhile school policies, such as whether the kid was in physical education or ate school lunches, had no predictive power for whether or not a child was obese.
Bookmaker William Hill is so impressed by Paul's predictive powers that it was offering even odds that he will pick the winner of the final on Sunday, between Spain and Holland.
You can conclude that a simple linear model offers more predictive power than simply using the mean of the Exhaustion scores.
If models have so little predictive power, what use are they?
The last hundred years, in the U.S., don't really have that much predictive power.
The predictive power of the IGS was independent of established clinical and pathological criteria, such as tumor size, lymph node status, histologic grade and estrogen receptor status.
The message: Not only do we need to think about risk as well as reward, but also we shouldn't be nearly so confident in our predictive powers.
Scientists could perfect the predictive powers of the test, which costs about $100 to $120, within a few years, Yuan said.
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