better predictor
collocation in Englishmeaningsofbetterandpredictor
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better
adjective
uk/ˈbet.ər/us/ˈbet̬.ɚ/
comparative of good: of a higher standard, or more suitable, pleasing, or effective than other things ...
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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 ofbetterandpredictorfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The linear modelling indicated that length was thebetterpredictorof seroprevalence.
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The fact that the confidence interval for internalization did not overlap that of the other predictors indicated that internalization was abetterpredictorthan these measures at end of treatment.
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Although transvaginal cervical length assessment is abetterpredictorof preterm birth than obstetric history, its accuracy is still dependent on a woman's risk status assessed by her history.
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The size of the personal social network is likely to be abetterpredictorof support network size than the entire social network.
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Interestingly, earlier grief-specific symptoms is abetterpredictorof later depression than earlier depression is of later griefspecific symptoms.
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It is possible that nonverbal mental age may be abetterpredictorof the type of categorization skills assessed by this particular task.
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Of the two surface damage parameters, peripheral damage provided a muchbetterpredictorof crop yield than the percentage coefficient of infestation.
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Except in the case of defence, ideology is still abetterpredictorthan public opinion.
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We also assessed symmetry in terms of whether substance use was abetterpredictorof violence than violence was of substance use.
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Abetterpredictorof the strength of the instability is given by the extent of these rearrangements.
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These outlying colonies are important because they reinforce the observation that colony size is abetterpredictorof home range, regardless of resource abundance.
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The verb is abetterpredictorof sentence meaning than any other word in the sentence.
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In addition, variability at this middle level of joint attention was abetterpredictorof variability in word learning than was variability at other levels.
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Further, they suggest that morphological awareness emerges as abetterpredictorof reading comprehension than of pseudoword reading.
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In addition, he states that if one had to make a choice between education and ability, then education is abetterpredictor.
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