The phrase "a comparator against" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a standard or reference point for comparison in various contexts, such as data analysis or performance evaluation.
Example: "We need to establish a comparator against which we can measure the effectiveness of our new marketing strategy."
Alternatives: "a benchmark for" or "a standard to compare with".
This base case model served as a comparator against which the effect of alternative parameter values and assumptions was explicitly explored.
This group will be used to provide a comparator against which the support provided to the regional and remote families can be judged.
Designing a trial comprises, among other things, the choice of population and outcomes of interest, methods of data collection, or a comparator against which a new, potentially useful experimental intervention ought to be tested.
Most of the evidence supporting piperacillin-tazobactam comes from small trials, except for one phase 3 trial in cIAI in which it was used as a comparator against ertapenem.
For example, we expected that most new trials would focus on children, that the proportion of optimally blinded trials would increase, and that the most efficacious analgesic intervention identified in the Picard review would be chosen as a comparator against which new experimental interventions were tested.
For each current to-be-estimated duration (T), the pulse count in working memory is compared (through a comparator stage) against two samples, one extracted from the memory store for short durations (S/T) and the other from the memory store for long durations (T/L).
Limitations include the absence of a comparator group against which the magnitude of the observed treatment effects could be assessed, and data collection during physician consultations rather than with patients' diaries, which may have introduced some degree of anamnestic error into the findings.
Such complementary assessments may compare the technology concerned against a comparator which represents the best available and evidence-based standard of care in the Member State concerned and which, despite that Member State´s request during the scoping phase, was not included in the joint clinical assessment.
Clinical trials measure efficacy by testing the intervention against a comparator of known efficacy, or where there is no suitable comparator, against a placebo.
Due to the promising preclinical and phase 1 results, and once again to shorten development time, a novel phase 3 trial was designed using an innovative three-arm combined phase 2B/3A design, which tested 2 doses of letrozole against each other and against a comparator.
Known as the 'Arzneimittelmarktneuordungsgesetz' (AMNOG) or 'Pharmaceutical Market Reorganization Act' the new regulation has introduced an early benefit assessment of new drugs and links prices to the degree of added benefit against a comparator drug [14],[15].
