The phrase "a less stringent criterion" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing standards or requirements that are not as strict or demanding as others.
Example: "In this study, we applied a less stringent criterion for participant selection to ensure a broader range of responses."
Alternatives: "a more lenient standard" or "a relaxed requirement".
A less stringent criterion for producing mappings is therefore appropriate for some users.
To overcome this drawback, the false discovery rate (FDR) has been introduced as a less stringent criterion leading to more powerful procedures.
Based on previously published studies (Price et al., 2006), we decided to also use a less stringent criterion of 1.5-fold change.
Since only 262 probe-sets were included in this analysis, we used a less stringent criterion of p<0.01 for gene selection (Table 3).
In order to find functional groups of genes over-represented in our dataset, we selected a bigger pool of differentially expressed genes using a less stringent criterion: p-values from t-tests (without FDR correction) less than 0.05, TNoM score equal to 0, and the fold-change in expression greater than 1.5 (on original data scale).
Furthermore, a less stringent criterion was employed for recombination partner identification.
A less stringent criteria identified 244 contigs that showed greater than 1.5 fold changes in expression level (p<0.05) (Table S8).
Using a less stringent criteria for a complete recovery (1.5-fold change), ~93% of the deregulated genes were completely recovered by coexpression with mbnl2 mRNA.
We routinely sampled 24 cores, and our sensitivity might have been higher had we taken more core samples or had a less stringent criteria for a biopsy.
Importantly, it should be noted that our SGS analysis, by design, identifies IBS segments (a less stringent criteria than IBD), with an aim is to identify excessively long regions that are therefore likely to be IBD.
Therefore, relying on these indicators provides a far less stringent criterion for Spanish language ability.
