Sentences with phrase «predictive test which»

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McCann had met Bill Wagner, a consultant specializing in psychometric testing, and become a convert to the Predictive Index, which consists of a relatively simple checklist of 86 adjectives.

Chicago, GenomeWeb — A new study by researchers from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center has demonstrated the predictive power of an AR - V7 protein expression test using Epic Sciences» non-EPCAM-based circulating tumor cell detection platform, which could help guide treatment decisions for men with metastatic castration - resistant prostate cancer.

«We would like to get down to a panel of about 200 [genes] that we would prospectively test to see which are the most predictive of outcome,» Jones and Cram said.

Doctors already test breast tumors for Ki67 levels, which can inform decisions about treatment, but this is the first time scientists have been able to link Ki67 to precancerous tissue and use it as a predictive tool.

The researchers are planning to test the organoids» predictive abilities in «co-clinical» trials, in which patients and their corresponding organoids are treated with the same drug.

In tests on 8 patients based on collaborations with NYU and Cornell University medical centers, the CSHL testing method yielded assessments of tumors that more closely matched the verdict of post-surgical pathological analysis (which reveal actual pathology) than the corresponding pre-surgical predictive biopsies, according to first author Joan Alexander, Ph.D..

Hornig says that the goal is to one day have a predictive genetic test that targets a person's potential for neural disorders, such as autism, on which environmental toxins are likely to impinge.

[30, 31] In developing candidate predictive biomarkers, several issues will make validation and adoption challenging in RCC since we may not know which tissue type (primary or metastatic tissue) to test and how many biopsy cores are needed.

This risk would not have been identified using only the current AET method, which seems not so predictive, with the exception of a product failing the test.

So, he asks «whether regulators are any good at identifying which schools will contribute to test score gains» and then says this: «The bottom line is that none of the factors used by authorizers to open or renew charter schools in New Orleans were predictive of how much test score growth these schools could produce later on.»

Repeating the analysis above with these two measures of parent characteristics added to the baseline control vector gives the following predictive effects for college attendance based on test scores which are somewhat lower than the results above using the baseline controls.

The law requires districts to adopt «multiple objective academic measures,» which could include statewide standardized test results, student portfolios and other placement tests predictive of math readiness, interim assessments and grades.

For instance, university researchers at the Stanford University Graduate School of Education's John W. Gardner Center recently partnered with the California CORE districts — which include the Los Angeles Unified, Oakland Unified, Fresno Unified, Long Beach Unified, Santa Ana Unified, Sanger Unified, Garden Grove Unified, and Sacramento City Unified school districts — to design a new local school accountability system that included measures of students» social - emotional learning, growth mindset, self - efficacy, and school climate.51 Researchers found that these measures were predictive of students» test performance and correlated with other important academic and behavioral outcomes.52

«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.

It goes by standardized test scores, and holds teachers accountable for what's called student growth, which comes down to the difference between how well students performed on a test and how well a predictive model «expected» them to do.

Over half of colleges used the Accuplacer for placement into math and English courses; the Compass, which was taken off of the market last November due to poor predictive validity, was the most commonly used assessment test for ESL (33 %), and was used by over 20 % of colleges for math and English.

To determine which combination of measures best predicted outcome, we tested the discrimination, or performance, of each model by calculating the area under the curve (AUC), which quantified each model's ability to classify a dog correctly as an eventual program release or success (higher AUCs indicate better predictive power)(54, 55)(SI Materials and Methods).

It turns out that the positive predictive value of that test is rather meager, which is one reason, among others, why the popularity of PSA testing has declined in recent years.

The statistical testing of a predictive model features a comparison of predicted to the observed relative frequencies of the various possible outcomes in the observed events that belong to a statistical sample which was drawn from the underlying population.

GIGO — All of the GCMs fail validation testing, which means GCMs do no agree with real world observations — i.e., none of the GCMs demonstrate any predictive ability whatsoever.

I don't disagree with that argument — I question the weight given to it in this domain, where actually solving the problem likely equals or exceeds the time interval required to do a robust test of predictive skill of the sort to which TE alludes.

In my experience, when scientists have a theory which they believe to have a lot of predictive power and only a few obvious numbers of practical importance to test it against, they look intensely for less obvious practically unimportant observations to test it against.

In a 2004 study, Professor William Henderson first examined the extent to which the LSAT's predictive power for law school success relates to test - taking speed.69 He concluded that LSAT scores were «a relatively robust predictor of performance on in - class exams but a relatively weak predictor of performance on take - home exams and paper assignments.»

The company says its testing the new predictive phishing protections in Chrome now, and that soon when users type a Google account password into a suspected phishing site, it will add «additional protections» to ensure their account isn't compromised, which will apply even if they change browsers.

Diagnoses were assigned on the basis of a semi-structured test battery for which reliability (Lavigne et al., 1994) and predictive validity were available (Lavigne et al., 1998).

When we test the predictive validity of ideals, we are asking the question: Does the extent to which a partner matches my ideals predict how positively I evaluate him / her?

Key takeaways included: 1) The permanent shift towards experiential retail with a clear focus on experiencing a brand's culture and community, as well as testing and touching products before buying them; 2) the rise of shared office spaces stemming from new work habits which have created a market for office space which isn't owned by an employer, but that workers can rent or subscribe to as members; 3) the importance of predictive investment analytics has created greater access to data and data tools that can help practitioners track with and get ahead of markets trends; 4) the increasing need to focus on more responsible and effective land use as it becomes an increasingly precious commodity; 5) the rise of automation in the transportation industry which is driving a need for nimbler supply chains connecting scalable manufacturing spaces and warehouses in the industrial sector.