The phrase "as a predictor affecting" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are discussing the role of a predictor in influencing or impacting an outcome or variable.
Example: "The study aimed to identify the factors that serve as a predictor affecting the success of the intervention."
Alternatives: "as an influencing factor" or "as a determinant impacting".
Deriving a similar model without CA-125 level as a predictor mainly affected discrimination between stage II-IV cancer and other malignancies (see supplementary table S4): validation AUCs decreased from 0.82 to 0.59 (stage II-IV cancer v metastatic cancer), from 0.87 to 0.76 (stage II-IV cancer v stage I cancer), and from 0.95 to 0.91 (stage II-IV cancer v borderline tumours).
This is commonly referred as predictor importance (Lombardo et al. 2015) and its computation establishes how much a given predictor affects the final probability value at a given cell.
Therefore, at the postintervention, the sample size was 27. Figure 3 summarizes the factors tested and identified as predictors affecting usage behavior according to the four research objectives and stages.
Tuesday's results may be useless as a predictor of 2010, but they are not without value as cautionary tales.
In 1977, the researchers reported their results: total cholesterol turned out to be surprisingly useless as a predictor.
"The 3-hour, 45-minutes test is almost as good a predictor as four years of high school grades, and a better predictor for minority students".
It's as good a predictor as any, because obviously we don't know.
When examining the relative contributions of conduct problems, depressive affect, and the interaction of conduct problems and depressive affect on AOD use, depressive affect is not as powerful a predictor as are conduct problems.
Finally, in univariate models, we examined whether relationships between the goal variables and ruminative self-focus were robust when negative affect was included as a predictor.
On multivariate analysis, comparing the different histological entities stage by stage, only a positive lymph node status was identified as independent predictor negatively affecting OS in early tumour stages 1 and 2, while absence of ascites had a significant protective effect.
