The consensus prediction gave 64.1% predictive accuracy for all 835 compounds.
By leveraging various underlying QSAR algorithms and training datasets, the resulting consensus prediction should yield better overall predictive ability.
In January, the consensus prediction for 2012 was a growth rate of 3.1 percent.
Among economists surveyed by the Blue Chip Economic Forecast, a closely watched monthly survey, the consensus prediction is that the economy will expand 1.7percentt.
But, while not outlandish, this economic forecast looks fairly optimistic already, The Economist poll of forecasters shows a consensus prediction of 1.6% for 1999.
For each protein chain a consensus prediction was generated.
This surprised analysts, whose consensus prediction was for EBITDA of $1.80 billion and sales of $4 billion.
A consensus prediction can be made even with an even number of classifiers if the individual classifiers calculate prediction probabilities.
Most networks agree on most predictions and, where they all agree, the consensus prediction is correct nearly all of the time.
Only if the "consensus prediction fraction" is larger than or equals to a predefined threshold, the final consensus model is considered as reliable.
Further, the results obtained in the previous study (ref [3]) were based on a consensus prediction of three models, namely ASNN, SVM, and RF.
