The model fitted the data well, and was able to predict later tumour volumes using earlier ones, as well as suggesting times at which to change or abandon treatment for individual patients.
Ickes focuses not on the question of how well subjects are able to predict stable dispositional traits of another person.
One rainy day (not today, though it certainly is rainy here in New York), I shall try to understand this, at least sufficiently well to be able to predict outcomes better.
We first investigated how well we were able to predict real data using our model.
As well as being able to predict 5-year, 10-year and lifetime risk of CVD outcomes given risk factor values for an individual, it can also predict life expectancy.
Because adherence to lifestyle behavior change is problematic at any age (Dishman 1988), this investigation examines how well we were able to predict adherence to physical activity in LIFE-P.
Skinfolds in various combinations have proven to correlate with adverse health risk, as well as being able to predict % body fat better than BMI (Brambilla et al., 2013; Nooyens et al., 2007).
As well as being able to predict lactation yield at any stage of lactation, lactation curve models can be used to summarise key features of the lactation curve, such as time of peak yield and the peak flow, and characteristics related to extended lactation.
But astronomers point out that they know the rock's orbital characteristics very well and are easily able to predict its path.
Vidale says that by measuring the strength of the rock and perhaps other parameters such as water content as well, geologists might be able to predict the strength of a future earthquake.
