Sentences with phrase «predictive power of»

Because previous studies do not provide a basis for making empirically - based predictions about the relative predictive power of the more distal and dispositional empathy measures in contrast to the more proximal and situational ones, we left it up to the data to educate us about the differential impact of dispositional and situational forms of empathy on spousal support provision (Research Question 1).

To confirm differences in the predictive power of the profiles between men and women, we conducted an additional regression analysis with the full sample, including gender, all profile variables, as well as gender by profiles interaction terms (plus all control variables).

Hierarchical multiple regression analyses were calculated to evaluate the predictive power of the WoC factors for marital satisfaction factors.

The first goal of this study was to investigate the predictive power of fam - ily functioning for children's psychological well - being.

Social class, housing tenure, educational level, and ethnicity were not significant predictors of interest, nor did they affect the predictive power of age and clinical status.

Although children's dispositions and peer relationships are significant antecedents of future adjustment, the predictive power of either factor alone is less than their additive or contingent contributions.

Due to the poor predictive power of mathematical intentions and behaviour using TPB antecedents of attitudes, subjective norms and perceived control, one could conclude that the TPB is not applicable in the mathematics context.

While several researchers have put forward tenuous correlations or no correlation at all (Jordan, McRorie, & Ewing, 2010; Mavroveli, Petrides, Shove, & Whitehead, 2008; Petrides Frederickson, & Furnham, 2004), others have emphasized the predictive power of emotion regulation for academic achievement (Di Fabio & Palazzeschi, 2009; Van der Zee, Tijs, & Schakel, 2002).

In the future, it will be important to obtain longitudinal assessments and examine the predictive power of measures of social supports in determining severity and persistence of depressive symptomatology over time.

And it's now more useful thanks to the predictive power of the Google Assistant.

In 2013, Cambridge University researchers Michal Kosinski, David Stillwell and Thore Graepel published an article on the predictive power of Facebook data, using information gathered through an online personality test.

The predictive power of Facebook likes is not in dispute.

In a nustshell scientific method comprises (where an hypothesis is ultimately successfully tested) a process of development of a testable hypothesis, tests by experiment, observations, confirmation and finally further tests of the predictive power of the theory.

Certainly not the the predictive power of the alamists that will tell us.

It's too late to influence anyone's vote, and I doubt that many of my readers are in much doubt as to which way they will go, so I'll return to one of my favorite topics, the relative predictive power of polls and betting markets.

Surely it would be a reasonable and valid approach to test such a hypothesis by collecting data, then fitting the curves, and then testing to evaluate the predictive power of imperically derived function.

You can always force a fit of past results with artificial adjustments of the parameters, but this has little to do with predictive power of the future due to the short time good data -LRB-?)

«In sum, we now have four converging lines of evidence that highlight the predictive power of climate models.»

In the latter case, anything that helps to improve the predictive power of the scientific ENSO analysis would be even more important than it is already today.

So until the observations and the models agree, or until one or the other is resolved, it's very difficult for people — and for myself, of course — to believe in the predictive power of the current models....

Score one for the predictive power of the models.

I have discussed the predictive power of climate models, but in a larger sense, I'm not sure that models ever make predictions about many of the most contentious phenomena in climate science, or if they do, I suspect it is rare.

A number of papers have been written on testing the predictive power of models based on history time series.

All in all, the predictive power of the model has been quite impressive.

It has always struck me that those who dismiss climate models are so certain about the predictive power of economic models forcasts of financial devastation when their track record is, to put it charitably, less than robust.

About 1980ish, some old ideas like the greenhouse effect were brought out of mothballs and re-examined with new tools and techniques; simultaneously several researchers and theoreticians released their notes, published, or otherwise got together and there was a surprising consilience and not a small amount of mixing with old school hippy ecologism on some of the topics that became the roots of Climate Change science (before it was called Global Warming); innovations in mathematics were also applied to climate thought; supercomputers (though «disappointing» on weather forecasting) allowed demonstration of plausibility of runaway climate effects, comparison of scales of effects, and the possibility of climate models combined with a good understanding of the limits of predictive power of weather models.

Gordon, I have a lot more faith in the predictive power of physics than I do in that of psychology.

Industry - specific FICO ® Scores incorporate the predictive power of base FICO ® Scores while also providing lenders a further - refined credit risk assessment tailored to the type of credit the consumer is seeking.

Figure 5 illustrates the strong predictive power of starting earnings yields for these four equity markets.

All these models use the past predictive power of valuations (e.g., a PE or CAPE ratio) to make forward predictions.

Brian notes the predictive power of his Dividend Safety Scores.

This result holds up quite well in a number of robustness checks, and we show that the predictive power of the average IV might come from its close relation with systematic risk omitted from CAPM.

Are there ways to concentrate the predictive power of accruals for future individual stock and equity market returns?

The study examined the predictive power of star ratings and expense ratios, and noted that «If there's anything in the whole world of mutual funds that you can take to the bank, it's that expense ratios help you make a better decision....

Gray and Vogel say that, «regardless of the yield metric chosen, the predictive power of separating stocks into high and low yield portfolios has lost considerable power in the last twenty years.»

The possibility exists that the predictive power of unemployment conditions could be a product of market or macroeconomic factors influencing the labor markets.

I'm sure if one includes st dev, these numbers would have no significant predictive basis, and that predicting whether the market goes up or down is a mugs game (we should just be buying cheap things), but I'm interested in the implications of the seemingly strong predictive power of this simple metric — how far can it be pushed?

Rob, understood, regarding the predictive power of CAPE, indices and individual stocks.

She describes the predictive power of grit for performance in the National Spelling Bee, graduation from West Point, graduation from the Chicago Public Schools, and a variety of other contexts.

For evidence of the predictive power of college selectivity and SAT scores see C, Clotfelter, H. Ladd, and J. Vigdor, «How and Why do Teacher Credentials Matter for Student Achievement?»

But the study also showed that the predictive power of these rubrics strengthened when classroom observation scores were combined with measures of student achievement gains and student surveys.

We present evidence not only about the predictive power of early value - added scores, but also on the limitations and imprecision of those predictions.

These tables above report a statistic called «Pseudo R - squared» or just «R - squared,» and this statistic shows us the predictive power of the overall models.

«The Gates Foundation's MET project (much but not all of which the AFT agrees with) has found that combining a range of measures — not placing inordinate weight on standardized test scores — yields the greatest reliability and predictive power of a teacher's gains with other students.

She will describe the predictive power of grit for performance in the National Spelling Bee, graduation from West Point, graduation from the Chicago Public Schools, and a variety of other contexts.

I'm just arguing that portfolio management requires confidence in the predictive power of achievement tests that is not even close to being warranted by the evidence.

Classroom observations make virtually no independent contribution to the predictive power of a teacher evaluation system.

Moreover, notes Rothstein, while it's true that past value - added is a better predictor than are student perceptions, the actual predictive power of the former is quite low.

Glazerman et al. (2013) is the only team so far to use random assignment to validate the predictive power of teacher value - added effects between schools.

That is, the true test of the predictive power of «noncog» measures is not whether they are correlated with cognitive measures (like achievement scores), but whether they are correlated with later life outcomes.