0 something such as an event or fact that enables you to say what will happen in the future:
One of the best predictors of a student's achievement is the socioeconomic status of the parents.
Phonological sequence learning is a significant predictor of receptive vocabulary learning.
This effect was only modestly reduced when psychiatric and sociodemographic predictors were controlled for.
We can then infer that the removed variable functions as a significant mediator between the predictor and criterion variables.
Also, the median income in a district is not a statistically significant predictor in any of these models appearing in these tables.
The role of sibling conflict on later school conflict was less straightforward than that of the other predictors.
A measure of non-verbal reasoning was then entered into the regression to ensure that common predictors were not simply due to a general ability factor.
They also find that the absolute level of voting participation in each state is a more influential predictor of health than voting inequality.
Subsequently, we performed a hierarchical logistic regression analysis to identify significant predictors of case status.