The phrase "a sole predictor" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a single factor or variable that is believed to determine or forecast an outcome.
Example: "In this study, we found that a sole predictor of success was the level of education attained by the participants."
Alternatives: "the only predictor" or "a single predictor".
Equations have been developed to predict urine N excretion using MUN output as a sole predictor or in combination with dietary CP level.
Conclusion: This study suggests that timing and the use of heparinase influence the predictive ability of thromboelastography, but its usefulness as a sole predictor of post CABG surgery bleeding is limited.
We review the use of the USC/Van Nuys Prognostic Index, a clinical algorithm designed to assist physicians in selection of appropriate treatments, and examine the impact of margin status as a sole predictor of local recurrence.
We believe that using the SIN phenomenon as a sole predictor of cholecystitis will allow for a more rapid diagnosis and an earlier intervention on these patients.
Our results indicated that autoantibody titers may not provide a cost-benefit improvement over OGTTs as a sole predictor, but they may be an important component of a composite modeled score.
In a systematic review from the Swedish Council on Technology Assessment in Health Care [ 2] it was concluded that the presence of mutans streptococci as a sole predictor for caries development in toddlers during the following 2-3 years had low accuracy.
The best subsets models of the post-methionine load increase in plasma homocysteine calculated on the control subjects either showed no significant predictors, or the fasting plasma homocysteine concentration appeared as a sole significant predictor.
If month of year is used as the sole predictor (not shown), a stronger seasonal trend with troughs in January and August, and a peak in April is obtained, but only accounts for 3% of the total variation in log chlorophyll.
In comparison, the NPV and PPV of a model using CRP as the sole predictor of ASAS 20 response (OR 1.36, p=0.070) were 56%and78%8%, respectively.
This new analysis shows that while student demographics are a significant predictor of an institution's CDR, they are not the sole predictor, or even the primary one.
Importantly, low frequency is not the sole predictor of functionality in a demographic expansion scenario, since we observed that growth also leads to accumulation of extremely rare neutral variants.
