The phrase "a modest prediction of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when making a cautious or humble forecast about a future event or outcome.
Example: "Based on current trends, I would like to offer a modest prediction of the market's performance in the coming year."
Alternatives: "a humble forecast of" or "a conservative estimate of".
To read: Jeffrey Goldberg writes for Bloomberg View about dog-whistles from the Republicans running for President: Here is a modest prediction: This presidential election will be one of the most race-soaked in recent history.
There are so many ambiguities that the budget office would have been wise to avoid even its modest prediction of a welfare increase to 530,000 from 464,000 by next September.
However, these analyses only achieved modest prediction accuracies of 68.3% and <60%, respectively (here, a trivial classifier would have an accuracy of 50%) [ 13].
The FRS only had a modest accuracy in prediction of atherosclerotic events in our study.
Combining such a function with a 'high utility' algorithm leads to a modest improvement of predictions.
Indeed, a modest number of gene predictions within the 44C and 65A arrays lack introns, indicated by thick borders in Figures 2A and 3A, and sites where intronless genes occur in the array are consistent across species.
Such a concerted effort would rapidly reach coverage levels, so far almost unrecorded in much of Africa with exceptions of areas in Zanzibar and Madagascar. 5 Using the ITN/LLIN coverage estimates reduced by one standard deviation of the mean would provide a modest upward margin of uncertainty in this prediction of an additional 0.8 million nets.
In fact, a modest number of unexpected individual positive predictions were made.
The model uses a modest number of input variables to quickly generate predictions of ambient air pollutant concentrations that are comparable to those of the "parent" models.
