Sentences with phrase «more predictive value»

Add to this the findings (from Bowen, Chingos and McPherson's Crossing the Finish Line) that high school grades have a more predictive value of college success than standardized tests, and you may just see a shift from standardized test scores to high school GPA by some college admissions officers.

Not exact matches

Many cleantech entrepreneurs are building physical infrastructure products, while many others are focused on creating value and services with data and predictive analytics — and today more and more of them are doing both.

«More importantly, such understanding would significantly improve our predictive ability of battery lifetime, which is of extremely high value to an electric car manufacturer,» Strmcnik added.

But he cautioned that people should view their study as a «launching point» for more research, and not interpret it as having any predictive value for the upcoming winter, as some media outlets have portrayed it.

Both predictive power and reliability are desirable traits, so values in the upper - right - hand corner of the graph are more desirable.

But to suggest that because these observational indicators (artificially) correlate with teachers» value - added scores at «weak» and «very weak» levels (see Notes 1 and 2 below), that this means that these observational systems might «add» more «value» to the summative sides of teacher evaluations (i.e., their predictive value) is premature, not to mention a bit absurd.

«And that's because its value as a predictive figure is becoming more and more widely known,» says Lynch.

However, the predictive value of body language is not as reliable as most think, largely because many body cues may have a variety of meanings and because fearful, rambunctious and uneducated dogs are more likely to bite than those that are aggressive.

If we accept that the crunch - free predictive model is a good predictor of game outcomes (and the extremely high correlation and tiny p - value suggest that it is), then the «crunch salvage hypothesis» tells us that we should expect that it should improve the outcomes of game projects where it is used at least to some tiny, observable extent... and the more it is used, the more it should improve game project outcomes.

It says much that even some of the most accomplished scientists at this meeting articulated that progress on climate, energy, equity, education and conservation of living resources will be driven by values and faith more than data and predictive models.

With this kind of coupled ocean, it seems silly to be highlighting the prediction range of the current grand ensemble as if it had more than dubious predictive value.

But he cautioned that people should view their study as a «launching point» for more research, and not interpret it as having any predictive value for the upcoming winter, as some media outlets have portrayed it.

If we want to (conservatively) isolate the predictive value of LSAT scores alone at a half or even a third of that, that's still impressive — given that no other pre-law-school factor outside of LSAT scores and undergraduate GPA predicts more than five percent of bar performance.

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This cutoff point corresponds to 80th percentile scores for community samples and has a 95 % sensitivity for diagnosing major depressive disorder (MDD) among low - income women, although the specificity and positive predictive value for MDD are low (70 % and 0.28, respectively).29, 30 The cutoff point of 16 has been used by many investigators assessing depressive symptoms in a variety of cohorts, including pregnant women.28 — 33 When studying depressive symptoms during pregnancy, some investigators chose to use a higher CES - D cutoff point (eg, the 90th percentile) to account for the possibility that symptoms of normal pregnancy may overlap with symptoms of depression.9, 18 There is no evidence that this approach is more accurate or preferable to using the cutoff point of 16, and the use of higher cutoff points increases specificity but decreases sensitivity for MDD.28 We used a consistent cutoff point of 16 to define depressive symptoms before and after parturition.