The phrase "a means to validate" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing methods or tools that serve the purpose of confirming or verifying something.
Example: "The survey serves as a means to validate our findings and ensure accuracy in our research."
Alternatives: "a method to confirm" or "a way to verify".
Results of clinical trials are used as a means to validate their effectiveness and to obtain regulatory approval.
To establish the stability of spermatozoal RNAs as a means to validate their use as a male fertility marker.
Access to supervisory-level data could be investigated as a means to validate observed model work group size findings.
It's going after things we're not passionate about or as a means to validate our worth that isn't conducive to our happiness.
As Kickstarter grows, and more and more companies opt to use it as a launchpad and a means to validate their product and measure market demand, learning from those who've found success provides an awesome guide future founders.
Conducting parallel analyses on data from two rather comparable neighboring countries can be regarded as a means to validate the tested models in addition to an opportunity to compare the results with respect to similarities and differences.
This study aimed to compare the utility-based EQ-5D-5L index scores derived from the two approaches as a means to validating the mapping function developed by van Hout et al for the EQ-5D-5L instrument.
Quantitative real-time-PCR, though lacking the scale of microarrays, is a rapid, sensitive and less complex method for gene expression analysis and offers an alternative approach for parallel profiling of multiple targets as well as a time-saving means to validate microarray results.
One means to validate the effectiveness of the URA is to test its predictive capabilities using datasets derived from cells treated with a defined upstream stimulus.
But Hud is simply a construction, meant to validate the white hipness of the show.
Cleaning validation protocol should be considered as a mean to validate cleaning procedures and cleaning media at the same time.
