The stock market is as good a predictor of that as other leading indicators.
You can then use that model to build a predictor for which users are likely to leave.
The rankings aren't a predictor of who will win or where teams will be seeded in the tournament.
Your driving history is seen as a predictor of what kind of risk you pose to the insurer.
As happiness research over the past half century or so has shown, belonging is a strong a predictor of happiness.
Are equity flows any better as a predictor than trade or bonds?
Kevin Logan, chief U.S. economist for HSBC, says this detail makes the data less a predictor of future growth than it usually would be.
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Strife is getting more common in lower-middle income countries, and weak government is at least as big a predictor of violence as poverty itself.
It's merely a predictor of who will make the tournament field.
Smart brands know that these sorts of statistics may not be lies, but they are deadly if they are counted on a predictor of fiscal reality.
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In September, the Congressional Research Service found that over the last 65 years the level of income tax rates and capital gains rates was not a predictor of economic growth.
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For we know that the level of education a person attains is increasingly a prerequisite for success and a predictor of the income that person will earn throughout his or her life.
In one National Cancer Institute-sponsored study, weight loss of greater than 5 percent from baseline was a predictor of poor outcome, independent of cancer stage, type of cancer, and patient performance status.
But we have the steepest yield curve that we've had in the last 40 years, and yield curve steepness is an overly simple sense a predictor of future bank system eagerness to lend.
The role of inflammation and the value of CRP as a predictor are still very much open to debate, and even supporters of the inflammation theory admit that it is unlikely to become more important than cholesterol.
Cholesterol is clearly not the only risk factor for cardiovascular disease -- half of all heart attacks occur in people with normal levels of LDL, or bad cholesterol -- but the accuracy of CRP as a predictor of cardiac risk has been disputed.
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"All these studies tell us is it is much more complicated than just trying to fix that number because that is a surrogate marker, or a predictor for the disease, not the disease itself, " says Robert Centor, a professor of internal medicine at the University of Alabama, Birmingham.
This is particularly worrying in the light of work which shows that pathological behaviour in childhood is a good predictor of a lifetime of aberrant behaviour.
The risk score was a greater predictor of becoming a smoker than family history according to the study.
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But it is not always a good predictor of how well a film will ultimately do.
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Thankfully, economic growth is a better predictor of stock market performance than a few trading days in early January.
Yet, for equity mutual funds, high past returns are a poor predictor of high future returns.
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The PGA awards are a good predictor of which films will ultimately be nominated for Oscars.
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Although the biomarker data is encouraging, as Schoenebaum points out, this is far from a reliable predictor.
However, all that stuff was a whopping predictor of higher sales, profits and stock price two years out.
Third, the income people earn upon arriving in the United States is a poor predictor of future achievement.
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Although none of these risk factors is a certain predictor of snapping, there are associated warning signs, Raison said.
Rapidly falling gasoline inventories are a good predictor of sharply higher gasoline prices.
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