In other words, bear markets lead to bearish forecasts that have little predictive value.

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However, they had no predictive value on subsequent increased sales, profits, or stock price.

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Lineup combination stats still tend to vary from year to year, minimizing their predictive value.

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It seems to be a pretty clear predictive value: the higher level, higher the lung cancer risk.

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What we do is, we look at our fundamental view of the world, and we also look at these indicators because they have good predictive value.

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InTrade is widely and correctly seen as having predictive value.

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Though I have never been convinced that comparative periods of performance have any predictive value, I think comparing chart patterns from different historical time frames can improve our perspective.

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But despite its questionable predictive value, the game of setting price targets is a lucrative one for Wall Street because it makes people want to trade boosting commission revenue.

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Most of the symptoms had a relatively low "predictive value" of less than 1%, meaning fewer than one in 100 patients with the complaint actually go on to receive a cancer diagnosis.

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You always run the risk that putting out too many predictive stats like the SPI can take away from the entertainment value.

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"What we found is that it may be hard to put a value on word-of-mouth but that it absolutely has predictive power, " says Omar Wasow, a Ph.

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