best predictor
collocation in Englishmeaningsofbestandpredictor
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best
adjective
uk/best/us/best/
of the highest quality, or being the most suitable, pleasing, or effective type of thing ...
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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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Soil volume was thebestpredictorof species richness on any given island.
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In particular, the context has rarely been manipulated systematically to identify the stimulus that supposedly is thebestpredictorof reinforcement.
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Thebestpredictorof voters' ideological identification after controlling for class, age and gender is support for a democratic regime, followed by perceptions of income distribution and religiosity.
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While thebestpredictorof post-election system support is pre-election level of system support, the indicators of system support used in this analysis are also subject to short-term forces.
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The statement that past behaviour is thebestpredictorof future behaviour has empirical support in respect of whether an individual will, or will not, commit a criminal offence.
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Further analysis of the data, however, suggests that age was not thebestpredictorof performance on the elicitation task.
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It should also be noted that thebestpredictorof non-compliance was that hypothesized at the outset of the study.
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This analysis demonstrated clearly that early production is thebestpredictorof later expressive vocabulary.
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In the control group, a good level of comprehension at 2.5 years was thebestpredictorof the children's subsequent language development.
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The pre-operative internal os dilatation was thebestpredictorof delivery at an early gestation.
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Moreover, temporal lobe size reduction was thebestpredictorof clinical improvement, and this variable did not differ between patients and controls.
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The head with its part of speech was the nextbestpredictor.
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In fact, lexical overlap between the passage and item distractors is thebestpredictorof difficult items.
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Evidence that severity is thebestpredictorof subsequent graft survival time.
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In fact, thebestpredictorof the number of negative statements made by patients or relatives after treatment was the number they made before treatment.
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Model 19 (vote as the dependent variable) reinforces this perception: the authoritarian/democratic conflict is thebestpredictor(odds ratio 6.90) of coalition preference.
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For each species, thebestpredictorvariables were selected and the discriminant functions applied to produce 84-92% correct predictions.
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Thebestpredictorof poor quality of life at 1-year was negative symptoms.
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