Predictive

Predictive texting can lead to some amusing errors when sending messages.

The predictive power of this theory has been demonstrated time and time again.

We, vulgar Internet users, are just raw materials, from which Google and Facebook extract our digital lives to make the predictive products sold to enterprises that want to exploit us.

Bears are known for their predictive dormancy.

The machine learning industry pursues the improvement of our predictive ability.

Fighting the flu usually consists of using predictive research to create a vaccine that fights the strains of the disease most likely to show up. But scientists around the world are closing in on a universal vaccine that takes the guesswork out of the fight.

The amount of rain in April is predictive of the number of mosquitoes in May.

Also, as we have seen in the preceding chapter, predictive conditionals show a high degree of integration thanks to the patterns of verb forms which are characteristic for predictives and which normally do not mix freely with other, non-predictive forms.

In contrast, English-speaking children appropriately differentiate if future predictives from when future predictives, a distinction relevant for English but not for, say, German.

However, the posterior predictives combine two sources of information: what we might term the structural effect of WIC participation as well as an unobserved correlation between the errors of the participation and outcome equations.