Definitions
of or relating to prediction; having value for making predictions
Word origin
Borrowed from Latin praedictivus, from praedico. Equivalent to predict + -ive.
Used in a sentence
“The amount of rain in April is predictive of the number of mosquitoes in May.”
“In contrast, English-speaking children appropriately differentiate if future predictives from when future predictives, a distinction relevant for English but not for, say, German.”
“Alternatively, we can use prior predictives to help define prior distributions.”
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