The phrase "as a key predictor" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing factors or variables that are significant in forecasting or determining outcomes in a particular context.
Example: "In our study, we found that socioeconomic status acts as a key predictor of educational attainment among students."
Alternatives: "as a significant indicator" or "as a major determinant".
Perhaps even more important, however, is that the diversity of higher trophic-level organisms may serve as a key predictor of multifunctionality17 and therefore as a management target.
And she makes the charge that Williams, who had been focused on using gas emissions, not seismic activity, as a key predictor of eruptions, later appropriated Chouet's work in the name of scientific progress.
Babble is increasingly being understood as an essential precursor to speech, and as a key predictor of both cognitive and social emotional development.
Intentions have been identified as a key predictor of actual behavior, across a wide range of different behaviors including business startup (Delmar & Wiklund, 2008; Wiklund & Shepherd, 2003).
More specifically, a consumer's psychological attachment to a university team conceptualized as his/her involvement or identification with that team as well as his/her image congruence with the team has been identified as a key predictor of his/her consumption of team-licensed products (Kwak and Kang 2009; Kwon and Armstrong 2002, 2006).
Furthermore, hierarchical partitioning analysis (see Methods and Text S1) consistently identified the relative availability in the inflow DOC pool (computed as the relative FTICR-MS peak intensity, rIinflow) as a key predictor of compound-specific mass transfer coefficients (vf-indDOC) in individual flumes; followed by the O∶C ratio, H∶C ratio and aromaticity (Tables S4 and S5, Fig. S2).
The results point to agriculture, income, education and labour market indicators as a key predictors of contexts with high forest cover and moderate changes in forest area (both gain and loss) from those with low forest cover and marked changes in forest area.
This suggests that improving mother's years of schooling may have significant influence on child nutritional status and ultimately alter the poverty cycle as stunting is a key predictor of human capital.
This is not surprising as self-harm is a key predictor of completed suicide [10].
As job satisfaction is a key predictor of the intention to stay and closely related to working time and wages, it is also included in the analysis as a categorical measure (dissatisfied; neither satisfied nor dissatisfied (reference); satisfied).
As expected, self-reported aggressiveness was a key predictor of ultimatum game rejections.
