Therefore, while the index may be useful at identifying lower quality environments that may predict population-level health outcomes, it cannot be used to predict adverse outcomes for individuals.
The results of this study may be relevant to predict population preferences for newer screening tests with a similar profile or an improved version of a screening test.
Furthermore, although these parameters may predict proportions of the population in which an outcome may occur fairly accurately, they cannot identify in which women the outcome will occur.
They also suggest that early population dynamics may predict to some extent future evolutionary rescue: rescued populations in the diversified treatment initially declined less rapidly than did populations finally going extinct.
Thus, to some degree, one may predict the evolutionary trajectory of a population if one knows the values of these quantitative genetic parameters (e.g., Grant and Grant 1995).
Recent studies suggest that uric acid may predict the development of diabetes in the general population.
Given the potential high risk of MSM contracting HIV, it is alarming that the increased HIV rates may predict future spread of HIV in the general population.
The increasing prevalence of HIV among MSM may predict a more general increase of HIV in the population over the next several years.
Taken together, CRP levels may predict the incidence of VF in AS patients and in the elderly general population.
The predicted population size may serve as an indication of insufficient coverage to detect the full viral diversity present in the sample.
21 Several rules may predict the same outcome and, in parallel, a single rule may be validated in multiple populations and settings.
