The phrase "a method preferred by" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a specific approach or technique that is favored by a particular group or individual.
Example: "The study highlights a method preferred by experts in the field for its efficiency and accuracy."
Alternatives: "a technique favored by" or "an approach chosen by".
Since women in both intervention and comparison groups generally reported having received their preferred method, it appears that the study avoided the possible pitfall in which providers might become overzealous and guide women to a method preferred by the provider rather than to the woman's individual preference.
Boats can mow and harvest hydrilla, a method preferred by fishermen and environmentalists, but many say the process is too expensive and inefficient.
During the shutdown, companies are still permitted to file confidentially, a method preferred by many companies as it allows them to refrain from disclosing key IPO details and financials to the public ahead of an exit.
The deal with Beats also marks a departure for Apple, which has a reputation for developing new products in-house, rather than buying up smaller firms - a method preferred by rivals Google.
Or you can Do a Fishless Cycle, a method preferred by many aquarists.
"It amazes me that they argue they can do this just because of materiality," he said, adding that he assumed that Xerox would therefore have to change to the method preferred by the S.E.C. in a future period if the two methods produced materially different results.
Did kings ever do any actual governing, or did they just fight and fret about who was or wasn't trying to unseat them?" Of course, your pestering might just earn you a beheading, which seems to have been the method preferred by kings and would-be kings of yore for making annoyances go away.
Multiple choice questions are scored efficiently (even automatically, if an electronic test is used), therefore, they are frequently the evaluation method preferred by instructors of large courses.
Shipping, the import method preferred by Abel & Cole, generates 50 times less carbon dioxide than air freight and six times less than transport by road.
The method preferred by social scientists in determining the divorce rate is to calculate how many people who have ever married subsequently divorced.
If instead the data are weighted by GDP measured at purchasing-power parity (the method preferred by the IMF, which adjusts for price differences between countries and so gives more weight to emerging economies) then global growth in the third quarter was an astonishing 6.3%, the fastest since at least the 1980s.
