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Then, the team used a machine learning approach creating a computer algorithm to identify which of these characteristics were the best predictors of success in the past.

This would still target those at highest risk of death — older age is a big predictor of Covid-19 fatality — and it’d be much more straightforward.

From Vox

The betting odds are much more accurate predictors than surveys or models, but they’re dominated by higher-income folks who are mainly male, and often bet on sports.

From Fortune

State environmental secretary Ben Grumbles said wastewater testing does not replace clinical testing but can be a great predictor of where the virus is and how rampantly it is spreading, detecting its presence in people who may never show symptoms.

Because xG is the best predictor of future performance, Tottenham’s occupation of the top spot may not be long-lasting.

Later on, the best predictor becomes how assimilated their Facebook friend networks are.

Gladwell argues that the quality of the school is less a predictor of individual success than individual merit is.

"On a coast" seems like a much better predictor than "near a big military base or defense contractor".

Right now, on Pope Name Predictor, John Paul III is predictably leading the bunch.

For example, plane crashes typically happen in bad weather, but bad weather is not a reliable predictor of a plane crash.

And here we return again to take a new survey of him in the course of his public practice as a predictor.

Hooker indeed seemed to have done what no predictor of events should do; he fixed on the period of its accomplishment.

The anonymous predictor, whoever he was, was a man of no mean ability.

He was a predictor, using his occult gift of second sight to foreknow events and tell The Leader about them.

It could have been an intelligence-evaluator, or an enemy-intentions predictor, but it seemed small even for that.

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On this page you'll find 143 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to predictor, such as: augur, clairvoyant, diviner, medium, oracle, and palmist.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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