In answer to such question I may venture a fairly safe prediction.

A 2005 study stated that " differential validity in prediction suggests that the WAIS-R test may contain cultural influences that reduce the validity of the WAIS-R as a measure of cognitive ability for Mexican American students ," indicating a weaker positive correlation relative to sampled white students.

This prediction hardly added to the composer's self-confidence, and may have contributed to the delay in producing the First Symphony.

As counter-intuitive as this may seem to those accustomed to neoclassical price theory, some empirical evidence suggests labor values are a better predictor of empirically recorded prices than prediction by any other means.

Because the discrepancy is not fully explained, uncertainty of our prediction of UT ( rotation angle of the Earth ) may be as large as the difference between these values: 11 s / cy < sup > 2 </ sup >.

Internal consistency, which addresses the homogeneity of a single test form, may be assessed by correlating performance on two halves of a test, which is termed split-half reliability ; the value of this Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient for two half-tests is adjusted with the Spearman – Brown prediction formula to correspond to the correlation between two full-length tests.

:: An ethical law has the nature not of a scientific law but of a scientific prediction: and the latter is always merely probable, although the probability may be very great .”

LP filtering also has disadvantages in that signals with a large number of constituent frequencies may exceed the number of frequencies that can be represented by the linear prediction filter.

Although predicted scattering rates for WIMPs from nuclei are significant for large detector target masses, prediction that halo WIMPs may, as they pass through the Sun, interact with solar protons and helium nuclei.

Alternatively, prediction may rely upon assumed channel geometry and runoff patterns using historical precipitation records.

Coincident events may cause flooding outside the statistical distribution anticipated by simplistic prediction models.

or on their prediction as to what their opponents may be holding.

His prediction: " In 50 years, you may be able to buy T-shirts on which are printed equations describing the unified laws of our universes.

The emergentist multiple drafts principle proposed by Daniel Dennett in Consciousness Explained may be useful for prediction: it involves the evaluation and selection of the most appropriate " draft " to fit the current environment.

Statistically tracking the performance of each head or seaming station of the can seamer allows for better prediction of can seamer issues, and may be used to plan maintenance when convenient, rather than to simply react after bad or unsafe cans have been produced.

The PESI and Geneva prediction rules can estimate mortality and so may guide selection of patients who can be considered for outpatient therapy.

Various processors may stall, may attempt branch prediction, and may be able to begin to execute two different program sequences ( speculative execution ), both assuming the branch is and is not taken, discarding all work that pertains to the incorrect guess.

However, the 1977 paper on which the claim is based said only that the " most probable " area " may added be the site of a future large earthquake "; a " firm prediction of the occurrence time is not attempted.

Its report ( issued October 18, 1990 ) specifically rejected the claim of a sucessful prediction of the Loma Prieta earthquake ; examination of a transcript of his talk in San Francisco on October 10th showed he had said only: " there will probably be several earthquakes around the world, Richter 6 +, and there may be a volcano or two " — which, on a global scale, is about average for a week — with no mention of any earthquake anywhere in California.

This includes protein-coding genes as well as RNA genes, but may also include prediction of other functional elements such as regulatory regions.

While there is much overlap between prediction and forecast, a prediction may be a statement that some outcome is expected, while a forecast is more specific, and may cover a range of possible outcomes.

Euan MacKie, recognizing that Thom's theories needed to be tested, excavated at the Kintraw standing stone site in Argyllshire in 1970 and 1971 to check whether the latter's prediction of an observation platform on the hill slope above the stone was correct.

Followers of the purported psychic Edgar Cayce take his prediction that evidence of Atlantis would be found in 1968 as referring to the discovery of the Bimini Road.

Whereas Macbeth places his hope in the prediction that he will be king, Banquo argues that evil only offers gifts that lead to destruction.

There is a close connection between machine learning and compression: a system that predicts the posterior probabilities of a sequence given its entire history can be used for optimal data compression ( by using arithmetic coding on the output distribution ), while an optimal compressor can be used for prediction ( by finding the symbol that compresses best, given the previous history ).

Their tests involved tunneling electrons, where the group argued a relativistic prediction for tunneling time should be 500-600 attoseconds ( an attosecond is one quintillionth ( 10 < sup >− 18 </ sup >) of a second ).

Matching the theory's prediction to observational results for planetary orbits ( or, equivalently, assuring that the weak-gravity, low-speed limit is Newtonian mechanics ), the proportionality constant can be fixed as κ = 8πG / c < sup > 4 </ sup >, with G the gravitational constant and c the speed of light.

" That leads to some difficult decisions, but they are unavoidable if we are to deal with the threat … None of the Führers prophetic words has come so inevitably true as his prediction that if Jewry succeeded in provoking a second world war, the result would be not the destruction of the Aryan race, but rather the wiping out of the Jewish race.

After the prediction became true he was released by Vespasian who considered his gift of prophecy to be divine.

In digital signal processing, linear prediction is often called linear predictive coding ( LPC ) and can thus be viewed as a subset of filter theory.

In system analysis ( a subfield of mathematics ), linear prediction can be viewed as a part of mathematical modelling or optimization.

Moreover, a useful economic theory should be judged not by its descriptive realism but by its simplicity and fruitfulness as an engine of prediction.

In particular, the field has made great advances in the understanding of the relationship between the atomic-scale structure of minerals and their function ; in nature, prominent examples would be accurate measurement and prediction of the elastic properties of minerals, which has led to new insight into seismological behaviour of rocks and depth-related discontinuities in seismograms of the Earth's mantle.

He described therein how small terms in the prognostic fluid dynamics equations governing atmospheric flow could be neglected, and a finite differencing scheme in time and space could be devised, to allow numerical prediction solutions to be found.

# Structured prediction: When the desired output value is a complex object, such as a parse tree or a labeled graph, then standard methods must be extended.

In 1992 one commentator who claimed to be able to contact Nostradamus under hypnosis even had him ' interpreting ' his own verse X. 6 ( a prediction specifically about floods in southern France around the city of Nîmes and people taking refuge in its collosse, or Colosseum, a Roman amphitheatre now known as the Arènes ) as a prediction of an undated attack on the Pentagon, despite the historical seer's clear statement in his dedicatory letter to King Henri II that his prophecies were about Europe, North Africa and part of Asia Minor.

The particles were never observed to rise above 6 km and when combined with scavenging by clouds gave the smoke a short residency time in the atmosphere and localized its effects ; Professor Carl Sagan of the Turco, Toon, Ackerman, Pollack, Sagan ( TTAPS ) study hypothesized in January 1991 that enough smoke from the fires " might get so high as to disrupt agriculture in much of South Asia ...." Sagan later conceded in his book The Demon-Haunted World that this prediction did not turn out to be correct: " it was pitch black at noon and temperatures dropped 4 °– 6 ° C over the Persian Gulf, but not much smoke reached stratospheric altitudes and Asia was spared.

The detailed prediction of how images are produced by these lenses can be made using ray-tracing similar to curved mirrors.

He agreed with Spengler ’ s prediction that class conflict would eventually be surpassed by racial conflict.

" In 1931, Ernest W. Brown asserted, using a mathematical formula, that the observed irregularities in the orbit of Uranus could not be due to the gravitational effect of a more distant planet, and thus that Lowell's supposed prediction was " purely accidental.

This prediction meanwhile has proved to be true in a variety of fields.