Therefore, the treatment and outcome information produced in the randomized trial allowed us to test whether EP is predictive of whether treatment with weekly paclitaxel is greater efficacy than FEC.
Table 5 provides information on chemotherapy treatments undergone by patients, whether the model was prognostic or predictive, and whether the model was validated using either an independent set of samples or cross validation.
Costing about $3,500, it analyzes the activities of 21 genes in a sample of breast tumor and then computes a score that is said to be predictive of whether a patient's cancer will recur and whether she would benefit from chemotherapy.
In practice, they have had almost literally no predictive power, whether looked at individually or averaged together.
"What we found is that there is biology that you can glean from the tumor, at the time you take it out, that is strongly predictive of whether or not it will go on to metastasize," Stephen Friend, a member of the gene-expression team at Merck, says.
We are trying to understand what biomarkers, such as brain images or tests on blood or cerebrospinal fluid, are predictive of whether an individual is or is not going to undergo a decline in cognitive function.
The authors concluded that technical analysis has weak predictive power whether or not brokerage fees are considered.
In fact, the setup of machine adjustable parameters is a central step for any predictive model, whether based on ML or not.
One was an analysis by Ridker that showed that lowering CRP was every bit as predictive of whether a patient's risk of heart attack went down as was dropping cholesterol or blood pressure.
Social software provider Lithium Technologies (another Emergence company) leverages its depth of knowledge in building successful consumer communities to help its customers realize a "Community Health Index" (CHI), a detailed usage analysis that is highly predictive about whether a community will succeed or fail.
