reliable predictor
collocation in Englishmeaningsofreliableandpredictor
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reliable
adjective
uk/rɪˈlaɪ.ə.bəl/us/rɪˈlaɪ.ə.bəl/
Someone or something that is reliable can be trusted or believed because he, she, or it works or behaves well in the way ...
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predictor
noun[C]
uk/prɪˈdɪk.tər/us/prɪˈdɪk.tɚ/
something such as an event or fact that enables you to say what will happen in ...
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(Definition ofreliableandpredictorfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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First, under these circumstances, articulation time should be areliablepredictorof memory span for all the bilingual groups.
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Fetal breathing movements are not areliablepredictorof continued lung development in pregnancies complicated by oligohydramnios.
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Thus, larval counts made during the vegetative growth of the maize plants were areliablepredictorfor the extent of yield losses at harvest.
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Cumulative trauma was areliablepredictor, and its effects increased with age.
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Experiment 2 found that for items with no pre-existing lexical representations (nonwords), articulation time was a morereliablepredictorof memory span than language dominance for all three groups.
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Therefore, there is a need to identify a morereliablepredictorof fetal death so that the first course of steroids can be delayed as long as possible.
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Early exposure to maternal depression, as shown in the previous early socialization analyses, was areliablepredictorof child depression some 10 years later, at age 16.
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For example, he reviews research that suggests that the extent of overt participation in the language classroom may not be areliablepredictorof language achievement.
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The aim is to provide a valid andreliablepredictorof physical task performance.
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There is often a family history that can be regarded if not as a certain, but as areliablepredictorof someone getting this ghastly disease.
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Low birth weight, for instance, is areliablepredictorof incidence of cardiovascular disease and adult-onset diabetes in later life.
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This derived allele is areliablepredictorof phenotype across a range of populations.
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Social factors are not reliable predictors; the effects of contact can be assessed only from traces left in the language.
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These analyses indicated that basic phonological skills were reliable predictors of reading ability in both languages.
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It is suggested that domestic legal activism and judicial change are more reliable predictors of post-transitional progress over accountability than is the presence or absence of interest from external actors.
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It was also found that frequency, a measure of pitch, and frequency variations were reliable predictors of dominance.
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Models are idealized systems known to be incorrect but assumed to be close enough to provide reliable predictors for the predefined areas of interest within a domain.
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After shared incubation of eggs, males leave on two-week-long foraging trips, which has been found to be synchronized with spring plankton blooms, as they are reliable predictors of food sources.
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