predictor
/pri'diktə/
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Definition
- Noun:
- A person who makes predictions: Someone who foretells or declares future events, typically based on special knowledge, analysis, or intuition.
- Information or a factor used for estimation: A piece of data, a variable, or an indicator that supports a statistical or probabilistic estimate of a future outcome or event.
- A type of computer or device: A mechanical or computational apparatus designed to calculate future positions or outcomes, historically used for applications like controlling anti-aircraft fire.
Examples of Usage
- Noun (Person):
- The economist is a reliable predictor of market trends.
- She is known as a predictor of technological shifts.
- Noun (Information/Factor):
- Strong sales in the first quarter are a good predictor of annual profit.
- In the study, age was not a significant predictor of success.
- Noun (Device):
- The military used an analog predictor to aim the artillery.
- Early fire-control systems relied on a mechanical predictor.
Advanced Usage
- Statistical Predictor: In data science and statistics, a predictor variable (often called an independent variable) is used in a model to forecast the value of an outcome variable.
- In the regression model, advertising spend was the strongest predictor of customer growth.
- Leading Predictor: A factor that consistently indicates a future trend or event before it happens.
- Consumer confidence is often a leading predictor of economic expansion.
Variants and Related Words
- Predict (verb): To say or estimate that a specified thing will happen in the future.
- It is difficult to predict the weather accurately.
- Prediction (noun): A statement about what will happen or might happen in the future.
- Her prediction about the election proved correct.
- Predictive (adjective): Relating to or having the effect of predicting.
- The software has strong predictive capabilities.
- Predictable (adjective): Able to be predicted.
- The outcome was entirely predictable.
Synonyms
- Forecaster: One who predicts or estimates a future event.
- Prognosticator: A person who foretells future events.
- Indicator: A thing that indicates the state or level of something, often used as a sign of what will happen.
- Oracle (figurative): A person or thing regarded as an infallible authority or guide to the future.
Related Phrases
- Predictor variable: (Statistics) A variable used to predict the value of another variable.
- Researchers identified several key predictor variables for the disease.
- Outperform a predictor: To achieve a result better than what was forecasted.
- The company's revenue outperformed all predictors.
Noun
- a computer for controlling antiaircraft fire that computes the position of an aircraft at the instant of a shell's arrival
- information that supports a probabilistic estimate of future events
- the weekly bulletin contains several predictors of mutual fund performance
- someone who makes predictions of the future (usually on the basis of special knowledge)