The phrase "a better predictor for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the effectiveness of one variable or factor in predicting the outcome of another variable or event.
Example: "In this study, we found that socioeconomic status is a better predictor for academic success than parental education level."
Alternatives: "a more accurate indicator of" or "a stronger forecaster of".
"The 3-hour, 45-minutes test is almost as good a predictor as four years of high school grades, and a better predictor for minority students".
Although both measures accurately predicted ASEBA results, the BESS was a better predictor for both groups of raters (i.e., teachers and parents) in most situations.
Both bacteria are found in the intestines of warm-blooded animals, but the federal Environmental Protection Agency determined that enterococcus was a better predictor for detecting pathogens linked to swimming-related illnesses.
Emerging data reveal that oral estrogen therapy can increase clinic blood pressure (BP) in post-menopausal women; however, it is important to establish its effects on ambulatory BP, which is a better predictor for target-organ damage.
Greater levels of intellectual disability and visual loss were reported in children with ASD in comparison to those without ASD, but, of the two, intellectual disability was a better predictor for ASD.
Two hierarchical multiple regression analyses revealed that gender was a better predictor than culture in jealousy ratings involving an emotional infidelity; but culture was a better predictor for jealousy ratings involving a sexual infidelity.
The ISS is a better predictor for developing VAP than traditional ICU scoring systems (APACHE II).
Comparatively speaking, the domestic migration rate is a stronger predictor for the regional prosecution rate, whereas the home-renting factor is a better predictor for the arrest rate.
Especially when the radiopharmaceutical shows RBM retention, 2D image-based dosimetry seems to be a better predictor for hematological toxicity than the blood-based method [5].
Further large multicenter, prospective randomized controlled trials are necessary to confirm the hypothesis that dynamic driving pressure could be a better predictor for survival in severe ARDS patients with ECMO support.
Information content is a better predictor for word length than word frequency [2, 41], and the relation between information content and meaning, including emotional content, is claimed to be crucial for the way humans communicate [15 17].
