predictive🔊

Useful in predicting.

(computing) Describing a predictor.

(medicine) Expressing the expected accuracy of a statistical measure or of a diagnostic test.

(grammar) A conditional statement that includes a prediction in the dependent clause (e.g. "if it rains, the game will be cancelled", "give her an inch and she'll take a mile.").

(statistics) Simulated data generated from a statistical model, based on the estimates for the real data.