The phrase "attempts at predicting the" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing efforts or endeavors to forecast or estimate something, typically in a scientific or analytical context.
Example: "The researchers made several attempts at predicting the outcome of the experiment based on previous data."
Alternatives: "efforts to forecast the" or "endeavors to estimate the".
Attempts at predicting the vagaries of artistic reputation rarely succeed.
They mildly comment that many books about the impact of technology are attempts at predicting the future using forecasting methodology that is at best "unclear".
Attempts at predicting the oxygen permeability from physical and chemical characteristics of the coatings showed that the glass transition temperature could not be correlated with the permeability.
Previous attempts at predicting the evolution of seasonal influenza viruses have tried to identify molecular signatures that are predictive of future success (Bush et al., 1999) or used clustering approaches based on amino acid sequences (Plotkin et al., 2002).
The focus of the current paper is an attempt at predicting the family of temporally localized distortions, which account for of the total variance in overall quality.
Our attempt at predicting the outcome of experiments that were not used to fit the model was only partly successful.
Fancy a crack at predicting the outcome?
Everyone is terrible at predicting the future.
The initial laboratory findings do not provide any prognostic clues and attempts at further predicting the clinical outcome of acute CO poisoning by means of brain CT scan or other tests have remained unsuccessful.
One of the first attempts at predicting cancer prognosis using genome-scale transcriptomic datasets was undertaken by van de Vijver et al. [ 6].
Even so, the PESQ algorithm betters earlier attempts at predicting MOS [3] largely attributable to a highly evolved Psychoacoustic Auditory Model (PAM).
