The phrase "tentative prediction" is correct and usable in written English.
You could use it when offering a qualified or uncertain prediction. For example: "Our tentative prediction is that the company's stock will rise by 5% within a year."
Ms. Lagarde offered a tentative prediction that what she called American "pragmatism" would prevail and avert the worst outcome.
A semi-final line-up of Northampton v Toulon and Leinster v Toulouse is my tentative prediction but one thing is certain: rugby's sense of self-worth will be higher by Monday morning.
And this is still only a tentative prediction.
However, it is common for people to incorrectly apply the everyday use of theory to misconstrue evolutionary theory as a tentative prediction lacking reliability.
Ouadfeul et al. [11] implanted a tentative prediction of daily geomagnetic field and storms by analyzing the International Real-Time Magnetic Observatory Network data using the artificial neural network.
His diaries are filled with tentative predictions, usually based on experts' opinions, that the worst is over.
Climatologists were making tentative predictions more than a year ago; in July the Southern African Development Community told its members to alert their farmers.South Africa advised its commercial farmers to start planting early, and to use crop strains that ripen quickly.
Several studies use network centralities to make tentative predictions of important vertices in compound networks.
While quantitative genetic models can make some tentative predictions about the maximal rates of genetically based evolution (see above), it seems impossible to make general statements about the range and scope of plasticity.
Anticipating this learning challenge, we helped students use their understanding of Mendelian genetics to make tentative predictions of phenotypic variation for F2s and F2d populations based on measurement and analysis of parent and F1 populations during week 1.
We advocate the use of a simple model for predicting extinction times caused by Muller's ratchet in order to make current discussions about ancient asexuals more quantitative [ 1, 7], even if that model cannot capture the full complexity of our study species and therefore only leads to tentative predictions.
