The phrase "a comparative exercise" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing an activity or analysis that involves comparing two or more items, concepts, or situations.
Example: "The study conducted a comparative exercise between the two teaching methods to determine which was more effective."
Alternatives: "a comparative analysis" or "a comparative study".
Yet while recognising the distinction between race and indigeneity is a lesson to take from New Zealand, it also reveals the difficulties with a comparative exercise.
The present work is a comparative exercise devoted to identify the origin of the key deviations found between the predictions of FRAPTRAN-1.4 and SCANAIR-7.1 codes.
For doing so, two popular spectral-like optimized schemes are assessed via a direct comparison against their standard counterparts, such a comparative exercise being conducted for several academic test cases.
As a comparative exercise, we have applied our bioinformatic strategy for the identification of CWDEs to the P. infestans genome [ 148].
Recently the U.S. National Toxicology Program (NTP) sponsored a comparative exercise in which different prediction approaches (both biologically and chemically based) were challenged for their predictive abilities of rodent carcinogenicity of a common set of chemicals.
Dietrich et al. [ 11] recently sequenced the Ashbya gossypii genome and in a comparative exercise claim their results provide compelling evidence supporting either WGD or a genomic fusion between related species (i.e. a paleopolyploidization) during the early evolution of S. cerevisiae.
In The Finnish Association of Graduate Engineers (TEK) this discussion led to a decision to develop an own comparative exercise together with VTT.
This article critically re-examined the descriptive and explanatory framework used in an earlier comparative exercise (Penninx and Roosblad, 2000) in light of contextual changes and recent empirical research.
We're not forgetting that in the end savings must equal investment; we're just doing the first step in a comparative statics exercise.
In addition, a comparative modelling exercise is performed with a composition of natural porewater and a simplified equivalent composition.
This study represents a comparative diagnostic exercise involving identification of patients with pre-synaptic dopaminergic deficit for two sets of data (local, PPMI) using established and CADx reporting methods.
