"hypothetical prediction" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to present a prediction that is based on assumptions rather than fact. For example, "The hypothetical prediction is that the effects of climate change will be even more drastic in the next decade."
One can only assume that these responses differ because a hypothetical prediction must have been generated.
The two smaller tubes were used for the actual experiment, and the largest tube was shown for the hypothetical prediction only (see Figure 1B).
Hypothetical prediction by experts of borderline performance, as is commonly employed in standard setting, seems intrinsically less fair or robust than correlating student performance with the real performance of a reference group in the same test as done with SCT.
To analyze the impact of new annotations on accuracy estimates of protein function predictors, we designed a hypothetical prediction challenge similar to CAFA (Radivojac et al., 2013), with three methods as virtual participants: GOtcha, BLAST and Swiss-Prot computational annotation (evidence codes: ISS, ISO, ISA, ISM, IGC, IBA, IBD, IKR, IRD, RCA and IEA).
Even if the best hypothetical predictions for removal of polluting chemicals from automobile exhausts is realized, the cleanup will not be sufficient because the expected growth of the automobile population will continue to increase the pollutant rate.
The student's elimination argument embodies hypothetical predictions about which day the teacher will give a test.
Hypothetical predictions are given for different porous media (loamy sand and clay loam), fluid levels in wells, and historic water-table fluctuations.
AIC model selection considered in the context of hypothetical predictions supports island area as the most important predictor of body size (Table 2; Fig. 3).
Finally, other putative secreted and transmembrane-encoding genes and exons were analyzed from hypothetical predictions from the UCSC Human Genome.
All values of probable observations were proposed based on previous information from real datasets and hypothetical predictions applications.
Although our hypothetical predictions regarding the exact mRNA signals recognized by RFH indeed lack certainty, we do predict (with high confidence) that this signal is different from RF1 and RF2.
