predictive

See also: prédictive

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin praedictivus, from praedico. Equivalent to predict +‎ -ive.

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -ɪktɪv

Adjective

predictive (comparative more predictive, superlative most predictive)

Useful in predicting.
The amount of rain in April is predictive of the number of mosquitoes in May.
(computing) Describing a predictor.
(medicine) Expressing the expected accuracy of a statistical measure or of a diagnostic test.

Antonyms

reactive

Derived terms

predictive text

Translations

useful in predicting

Bulgarian: предсказващ (bg) (predskazvašt), пророчески (bg) (proročeski)
Catalan: predictiu
French: prédictif (fr)
Italian: predittivo (it)
Portuguese: preditivo (pt)
Russian: предсказывающий (ru) (predskazyvajuščij), предвещающий (ru) (predveščajuščij), предсказательный (ru) (predskazatelʹnyj), предвосхищающий (ru) (predvosxiščajuščij)
Spanish: predictivo

(computing) describing a predictor

Russian: предиктивный (ru) (prediktivnyj)

Noun

predictive (plural predictives)

(grammar) A conditional statement that includes a prediction in the dependent clause (e.g. "if it rains, the game will be cancelled", "give her an inch and she'll take a mile.").
- 1999, Barbara Dancygier, Conditionals and Prediction: Time, Knowledge and Causation in Conditional Constructions, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, published 2004, →ISBN, page 76:
  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.
- 2008, Virginia C. Mueller Gathercole, Routes to Language: Studies in Honor of Melissa Bowerman, page xiv:
  In contrast, English-speaking children appropriately differentiate if future predictives from when future predictives, a distinction relevant for English but not for, say, German.
(statistics) Simulated data generated from a statistical model, based on the estimates for the real data.
- 2008, Siddhartha Chib, ‎William Griffiths, Bayesian Econometrics, page 160:
  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.
- 2018, Simon Farrell, ‎Stephan Lewandowsky, Computational Modeling of Cognition and Behavior, page 308:
  Alternatively, we can use prior predictives to help define prior distributions.