At the start of the semester, tree-thinking ability, as indicated by the TTCIPRE score, was a predictor of the MATEPRE score (Table 9).
However, the two predictors are able to extract slightly different features as indicated by the finding that the combined SVM predictor outperforms the single L20 and L400, reaching an accuracy of 88% and a correlation coefficient of 0.75.
When presented with the ten key predictors as indicated by the second Delphi round, 13 (42%) panel members agreed on this selection.
For model 1 and 2 we started with the most significant clinical predictor as indicated by the lowest P-value out of the multivariable analysis (Table 2) and then we stepwise added the next significant clinical predictor with increasing order of P-values.
All risk factors were predictors of survival as indicated by the Hazard ratios ranging from 2.1 to 6.2, where the tumour marker AFP was the weakest risk factor in the univariable analysis.
WC and WHR were found to be significant and independent predictors of CVD risk, as indicated by the high area under the receiver operating characteristic curves (>0.76), after controlling for BMI in the simplified general CVD risk score model.
However Ebinding itself was not a good predictor for − logREC20, as indicated by the big prediction residuals for some HO-PBDEs.
As indicated by the positive value (+0.40) of the coefficient of the wake predictor, intervening wakefulness of 12 hours or more rendered response bias more conservative.
In conclusion, the presence of PNI was a strong and independent predictor of a poor outcome, as indicated by the univariate and multivariate analyses.
If the sign of the coefficient is negative, when the predictor variable score increases by 1 standard deviation, MSQoL score decreases by the number of standard deviations as indicated by the value of the coefficient.
As expected, subsp. spontaneum clearly avoids the rather dry and hot, partly desertlike areas of Central Syria and Iraq, the southern plains of Euphrates and Tigris, and Central Iran, as also indicated by the relative contributions of the environmental predictors.
