The phrase "a specific predictor of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a particular factor or variable that is believed to forecast or indicate a certain outcome or behavior.
Example: "The study found that a specific predictor of student success is their level of engagement in class activities."
Alternatives: "a particular indicator of" or "a distinct forecaster of".
However, an increased plasma cell-free DNA concentration is neither a sensitive nor a specific predictor of death.
When analyses were performed according to PAD status, infection emerged as a specific predictor of non-healing in PAD patients only.
However, whether ERCC1 is simply a generic prognostic factor or a specific predictor of cisplatin efficacy is still to be demonstrated.
In our opinion, these factors impair the use and generalisability of this marker as a specific predictor of survival in patient cohorts.
Furthermore it might be important to evaluate what makes a physician think whether a patient has pertussis, considering the fact that our study and other studies show that paroxysmal cough is not a specific predictor of pertussis [ 4, 8, 19].
On the contrary, some studies, that retrospectively assessed the sensitivity and specificity of this indictor, concluded that maternal weight gain alone is neither a sensitive nor a specific predictor of poor pregnancy outcomes [ 3].
Our recent study of the complexes that form when various disordered segments bind to ordered partners indicates that the disorder-associated binding regions have distinct sequence features, even when the bound structure is irregular or sheet instead of helix, and so it should be feasible to develop a specific predictor for each of the different types of MoRFs [ 137].
Sauerbrei and Schumacher used bootstrap sampling to assess the distribution of an indicator variable denoting the inclusion of a specific predictor for identifying strong and weak factors for predicting survival [ 26].
Studies may also focus on quantifying the incremental or added predictive value of a specific predictor (for example, newly discovered) to a prediction model.
We pooled the data from all studies assessing a specific predictor, regardless of the pituitary axis being evaluated.
Nevertheless, the presence of hygroma in one or more animals in a herd appeared to be a fairly specific predictor of herd seropositivity, with estimated specificity of 98.4%.
