Sentences with phrase «predictive abilities of»

Proponents still insist that with enough scrutiny, enough revision, and enough testing of the algorithms used, the predictive abilities of machine learning can improve.

Yet it depends on myth - making, and overstating the predictive abilities of climate science.

Since the 1950s, social scientists have been comparing the predictive abilities of traditional experts, and what are known as «statistical prediction rules,» which are just simple models.

Metamaterial arrays whose geometry varied gradually from a symmetric bar to an asymmetric U-shape were used to compare the predictive abilities of Miller's rule and a non-linear light scattering theory.

Whereas David Weinberger's speculations about predictive abilities of big data — crunching models in «The Machine That Would Predict the Future» are intriguing, planners and social scientists aren't about to step aside just yet.

Adding two blood - borne proteins associated with cancer cell migration increases the predictive ability of the current biomarker for pancreatic cancer to detect early stage disease, a research team from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center reports in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

«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 so far the subterranean flow changes and rates of chemical reactions have been outpacing the predictive ability of the maps.

Dr Gloria Aguayo from the Luxembourg Institute of Health (LIH) and co-workers examined the predictive ability of 35 frailty scores for cardiovascular disease, cancer and all - cause mortality using data from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing.

Furthermore, I plan to construct models that will describe how ecosystem structure may change in the face of multiple stressors, and compare these models against existing models of coral bleaching and disease to determine whether they offer novel insights or enhanced predictive ability of these events.

Julio et al. (2012) explored the predictive ability of an equation (1RM = -14.0 + [1.32 x repetitions] + [1.27 x load]-RRB- using repetition maximum bench press tests with 70, 80 and 90 % of 1RM.

When we examined whether students enroll in remedial courses in the tested subject specifically, we again found no statistically significant differences in the predictive ability of either test.

Stale evidence hurts the predictive ability of the scores lenders use to make underwriting decisions.

Two years ago, Arturo Estrella, a Fed economist who has done extensive research into the predictive ability of the yield curve, was asked whether he thought the term spread still had its forecasting ability.

The paper adds further weight to the predictive ability of low price - to - book value and low price - to - earnings ratios.

The Value Factor: Forecast vs. Actual Alpha To provide context for a discussion and demonstration of the predictive ability of starting valuations to forecast five - year performance, we use the value factor to illustrate one of our major findings from the first article.

The variances indicate the importance of each index, yet neither MEI or PDO are well enough correlated with annual balance to provide any reasonable predictive ability of the specific annual balance (Pelto and Miller, 2003).

Historical examples throughout the march of humanity to compare with the faith Western academics invest in the predictive ability of their numerical models (General Circulation Models or GCMs) would be a list of some pretty odd rituals.

Second, we validate our overall predictions with users» actual review of their career history in order to optimize the predictive ability of our overall match score.

Also, perception isn't just important in terms of sexual compatibility and its predictive ability of sexual satisfaction.

Not exact matches

In other words, the two groups both said they were testing Twitter's predictive ability; in reality, they both examined the accuracy of predictions using tweets and additional data sources like movie openings in theaters and film ratings on International Movie Database and Rotten Tomatoes.

The man known for his ability to see into the future has written a book that's largely about the limits of our predictive powers.

The most interesting chapters of The Two - Second Advantage deal with attempts to take that human predictive ability and to blend it with real - time computing — as the authors have it, to design and build predictive systems that put «Gretzky's brain in a box.»

«The only metric that has been shown to have some degree of predictive ability is low fund expense,» he said.

Psychologist Angela Duckworth, a protà © gà © of Seligman's, has done a range of studies — on college students with low SAT scores, West Point plebes, and national spelling bee contestants, among others — and has found that a determined response to setbacks, an ability to focus on a task, and other noncognitive character strengths are highly predictive of success, much more so than IQ scores.

Logistic regression using a hierarchical stepwise method indicated that none of the demographic factors, which were entered first, were found to be predictive of the infants» ability to achieve developmental milestones.

His predictive abilities haven't exactly stood the test of time of late....

«Biologics is the fastest growing field in biotech, because it gives you the ability to do highly predictive designs with unique targeting capabilities,» says senior author Mehmet Fatih Yanik, an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science and biological engineering.

After analysis of the data, preschoolers» ability to categorize food was predictive of hypothetical food choices.

They found that measures of self - efficacy — a personality trait that underlies how much you believe in your own abilities to accomplish a goal (as well as deal with the stresses that accompany working toward that goal)-- were predictive of how risky a climber was willing to get.

The predictive power of the PET scan comes from its ability to gauge the brain's average metabolism.

«We found that the number of different compounds was highly predictive of colony death, which suggests that the addition of more compounds somehow overwhelms the bees» ability to detoxify themselves.»

The study found that the ability to withstand this stress was more predictive of survival than other factors such as the overall amount of water lost through leaves and the depth of roots.

Validation of its high - fidelity model and the predictive accuracy of its new simulation methods are giving GE the ability to better integrate simulation directly into its product design cycle.

Aaron Ciechanover, speaking on a panel on the future of biomedicine at the Lindau meeting, explains: «We may have the ability to profile patients before they get sick, therefore we may have the ability to predict diseases - and also «preventative» because if it's predictive we can also point out the risks.

Limitations of the study included the fact that interventions were routinely offered to women with a history of pregnancy loss or early preterm birth if a short cervix was detected, which may have influenced the pregnancy outcome and slightly reduced the predictive ability in this study, but ethically the study could not be conducted without providing some intervention.

The study also showed that a combination of factors, including neurobehavioral symptom severity, walking ability, and verbal fluency at one year after injury, was highly predictive of poor outcomes five years later.

It is also recommended that the current voluntary restriction on insurers» ability to ask for predictive genetic test results should be renewed, in the light of public concerns over genomic data disclosure to insurers and the risk that this might result in many «refusing their consent to receive additional findings from whole genome sequencing».

So we wanted to see if playfulness in Kindergarten had any predictive ability to talk about how the children would be in First, Second and Third Grades, both in terms of teacher's perspectives and in terms of their classmates» perspectives.

They find that non-response is predictive in six different national longitudinal data sets of later life outcomes for students, including attainment, employment, and earnings, even after controlling for other relevant factors including cognitive ability.

«We looked to see if morphological awareness was predictive of comprehension ability over and above just having a good vocabulary.

The fact that grit or other character skills may not be strongly predictive of achievement test results is not surprising if these non-cog measures capture something that is important independently of cognitive ability.

The number of items that students answered was predictive of the highest level of education students attained by 2010, controlling for a host of factors including measures of their cognitive ability.

There are a number of potential explanations for this finding, including a limited supply of effective teachers (it's rational to keep a mediocre teacher if the likely replacement will be no better), a lack of administrator ability to discern teacher quality (their observations are less predictive of value - added than those of outside observers), or a simple unwillingness to make the unpleasant decision of firing someone.

Behind the scenes of the Teacher EPI is a research consortium of individuals and organizations with expertise in research, education, psychometrics, and predictive analytics, who worked together to pinpoint the exact skills and abilities that lead to the most student gains.

This is literally an example of how two children of equal ability (assuming you believe that an IQ test administered to a four - year - old is predictive of anything) are unequally educated, based on a roll of the dice.»

Finally, studies focused on the development of measures of teacher competence have documented that teachers» ability to analyze student thinking as portrayed in brief video clips of classroom lessons is predictive of their teaching effectiveness (Kersting, Givvin, Thompson, Santagata, & Stigler, 2012).

Regardless of the process chosen to conduct screening, all include the use of measures that are highly predictive of later reading ability.

Behind the Teacher EPI is a research consortium of individuals and organizations with expertise in research, education, psychometrics and predictive analytics, who worked together to pinpoint the exact skills and abilities that lead to the most student gains.

Screening measures, by definition, are typically brief assessments of a particular skill or ability that is highly predictive of a later outcome.