The phrase "acted as predictors" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are discussing factors or variables that provide insight or forecasts about an outcome.
Example: "In the study, various socioeconomic factors acted as predictors of educational attainment among the participants."
Alternatives: "served as indicators" or "functioned as forecasters".
The aim of this study was to investigate whether academic self-efficacy and academic procrastination can act as predictors of problematic internet use among university students.
Finally, a multiple regression analysis was performed (Table 4) to analyze the possible relation between the independent variables (self-esteem, MAAS, satisfaction with life, PA, and NA) that act as predictors or explanatory variables, and another independent variable, the MWQ.
So up to a point, it would be logical to understand that with a phenomenon like mind wandering, the variables that require greater awareness about the subject's conscience state do not act as predictors, which was the case of the present research.
To investigate whether clinical or laboratory variables on admission of patients with odontogenic infections are associated with a severe clinical course and a prolonged hospital stay, we hypothesised that specific factors such as the serum concentration of C-reactive protein (CRP) may act as predictors of the duration of stay.
Therefore, we concentrate not on the TFs themselves but on genes which are controlled by the same TFs and thus might act as predictors for each others.
We based our analysis on a modified version of the Andersen, Newman, Aday framework with three dimensions of patient characteristics that act as predictors of health care use: predisposing characteristics, such as age and sex; enabling resources, such as income and insurance; and needs, such as diagnosed illness [21], [22], [23].
Another possible explanation besides the possible causal chain mentioned above, is the fact that cardiac abnormalities might act as predictors for frailty, since in the Cardiovascular Health Study, frailty has been shown to predict falls in older persons and in this same cohort it has also been shown that subclinical cardiovascular disease was associated with frailty [32], [33].
In particular, similar perspective and social capital could act as predictors of networks.
Based on this observation, we investigated whether baseline hemodynamic and echocardiographic variables could act as predictors of the aerobic capacity.
