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Example sentences for: predictor
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For analyses of ethnicity as a predictor of treatment selection, Caucasian was used as the control group and indicator variables for all other ethnic groups were created.
And I myself remembered the so-called "Nun study," which claimed that sentence complexity in writing could be used as a predictor of Alzheimer's disease later in life (in essence, nuns who wrote simple sentences as novices were more likely to be Alzheimer's victims in old age; those writing more complex sentences were less likely to contract it).
In a combined model with all independent variables in a logistic regression, island of residence remained the only significant predictor of BCS in this population.
Using this grouping as a predictor in the Cox model for survival gave a highly significant p value (0.
The resulting log-linear model has the convenient property of measuring the relative change in the dependent variable (uncompensated care) for an absolute change in a given predictor variable, controlling for other predictors in the model.