The phrase "a method akin to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a method that is similar or comparable to another method.
Example: "The researcher employed a method akin to the one used in previous studies to ensure consistency in results."
Alternatives: "a method similar to" or "a method comparable to".
A method akin to the Rayleigh method is presented.
He attended séances and received messages from the dead through "the power of automatic writing," a method akin to that of the Ouija board.
Codexis, based in Redwood City, California, has created a range of enzymes by a method akin to sexual reproduction and natural selection.
If the spatial derivatives are approximated by a method akin to the ☐ scheme and if the temporal derivative is approximated by either a backward difference or the Crank-Nicholson scheme, we show that the resulting discretization is unconditionally stable.
To determine preferential utilization of substrate by BPL, a method akin to ELISA was used.
A method akin to clustering, known as mixture models, is used to identify genes that define distinct subtypes.
We can estimate density from a moving platform equipped with a recording device using methods akin to commonly used line transects for forest birds.
And they figured they could read the address using methods akin to next-generation DNA sequencing, a set of high-speed genome sequencing methods Church helped develop in the early 2000s.
In an evolutionary algorithm, one selects a population of models encoding a different candidate set of parameters, assesses their performance, rejects those that perform poorly and modifies the parameters of the better-performing models using methods akin to recombination and mutation to create a second generation population and so on.
A European investigator said last year he had proof that Poland and Romania hosted secret prisons for the CIA in which it interrogated top al-Qaida suspects using methods akin to torture.
The second movement, whose main representative was the visionary and adventurer Abraham ben Samuel Abulafia (born 1240), justified itself by appeal to inner "prophetic" experiences encouraged by training methods akin to those of Yoga, Byzantine Hesychasm (mystical, quietist monasticism), and Sufism.
