Roche's test, introduced late last month, is intended to predict how an individual will react to certain drugs so that doctors can adjust doses accordingly.
When intended to predict relatively distant future behaviour (e.g., success in school), such a device is called an aptitude test.
Stock prices marched broadly higher yesterday even as the index of leading economic indicators, which is intended to predict the economy, fell once again, the seventh time since March it has failed to advance.
Also today, the Conference Board said its index of leading economic indicators, which is intended to predict economic activity three to six months ahead, rose 0.1percentt in March, indicating continued growth.
The system, which aides say is modeled on the way corporations assess risks, is intended to predict areas of potential enforcement violations and redirect agency resources before it is too late.
One senior official said the report did not intend to predict with certainty how China, Russia and other countries would respond, but rather simply laid out a range of responses.
The scientist's report brings the statistics together into two multi-term equations intended to predict the team's future success, but from the start, Hawking sets the tone for how the work might be regarded.
This year, Gov. George W. Bush of Texas holds a slight advantage over Mr. Gore in national polls, although the vice president leads in some tallies of state-by-state polls intended to predict the Electoral College result.
Warren Hoge (NYT) BRITAIN: MAD COW STUDY -- A study intended to predict the threat from mad cow disease has found no evidence of the human form of the disease, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, in the first 3,000 of 18,000 tonsil and appendix samples to be examined, the Department of Health said.
