On an individual basis, the best predictor of whether drugs would work in a patient was whether he had been treated for tuberculosis before.
We also used this model to determine whether intensity in mature damselflies was a significant predictor of whether this sample of the population resisted mites.
The disagreement within the literature concerns whether the troponin elevation is an independent risk predictor or whether it is an organ system failure marker.
And direct-order merchants found that the best predictor of whether someone would buy from a given catalog was whether he had recently bought something -- anything -- by mail.
The only statistical significant predictor of whether the patient would enrol in a clinical trial was whether the patient believed they were cured as a predictor of enrolment in a screening or prevention trial.
Membership in a small group is a better predictor of whether people volunteer or give money than how often they attend church, whether they pray, whether they've had a deep religious experience, or whether they were raised in a Christian home.
The No. 1 predictor of whether a student graduates, he says, is which college a student attends.
"A better predictor of whether someone is a good credit risk is his credit history," said David W. Berson, chief economist at Fannie Mae.
"The best predictor of whether we are in session after the election is the Senate race in Missouri," Representative Dick Armey of Texas, the Republican leader, said.
