predictive
/pɹɪˈdɪk.tɪv/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.37 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Useful in predicting.
adj
adj
Expressing the expected accuracy of a statistical measure or of a diagnostic test.
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.").
Example Sentences
- "The amount of rain in April is predictive of the number of mosquitoes in May."
- "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 freely with other, non-predictive forms."
- "In contrast, English-speaking children appropriately differentiate if future predictives from when future predictives, a distinction relevant for English but not for, say, German."
- "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 outcome equations."
- "Alternatively, we can use prior predictives to help define prior distributions."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Latin