The phrase "a sole predictor of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a single factor that is believed to determine or forecast an outcome.
Example: "While many factors contribute to success, hard work remains a sole predictor of achieving one's goals."
Alternatives: "the only determinant of" or "a singular indicator of".
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
For instance, when income is the sole predictor of burglary there is a clear victimisation divide between the poorest households and those in middle and high incomes (Nilsson and Estrada 2006; Tilley et al. 2011).
Preliminary multinomial logit regression took a bivariate format with green space as the sole predictor of sleep duration.
Universities are reaching out too – places such as King's College London, where I am a visiting professor, realise that prior attainment is not the sole predictor of educational achievement.
If task difficulty is the sole predictor of interruption cost, there should be a linear increase in time cost as task difficulty increases (shadowing < 1-back < 3-back).
