The phrase "a prior comparison" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a comparison that was made earlier in a discussion or analysis.
Example: "In light of a prior comparison, we can see how the two products differ in performance."
Alternatives: "an earlier comparison" or "a previous comparison".
a Unilateral right mediolateral oblique and b magnified craniocaudal mammograms demonstrate abundant segmental coarse heterogeneous calcifications not present on a prior comparison study performed 2 years earlier (not shown).
Treatment fidelity – The quality of delivery of the two treatments was assessed by independent raters using an adaptation of an instrument developed for a prior comparison of CBT-BN and IPT (Loeb et al., 2005).
To allow comparison with past environmental exposures, we chose a prior comparison period that allowed us to use the maximum amount of environmental data available from the pollution sites used in the study: 25 January 2002 to 31 March 2005.
Moreover, a prior comparison of somatic homolog pairing between diploid, tetraploid, and even partially hexaploid cell lines showed that the percentage of nuclei with a single FISH signal is strikingly similar in each type of cell (Williams et al. 2007), implying that pairing mechanisms can accommodate changes to chromosome number.
Yes, even with all prior comparisons to Winston Churchill, Netanyahu's last minute, Hail Mary campaign stunts were not his finest hour.
Consecutive radiographs from the same patients resulted in 83 unique pairs (ie, a new radiograph and prior, comparison radiograph) for interpretation.
About a fifth of Adult program participants had prior comparison program (UI or ES) experience, compared to over two-fifths of Dislocated Workers.
If the expenditure analysis is conducted on a general sample, then prior comparisons of generic measures can inform measure choice (13, 15).
If you are using an online program or a Tax Pro, you can probably get a prior-year comparison report that can help you identify potential missing information, miss-entered information, or areas you should consider making changes to for next year.
However, in most of these cases, prior comparisons involved only two modules (we used four).
However, several prior comparisons of imagery with verbal representations have consistently found imagery to have stronger effects on emotional outcomes, with verbal methods sometimes having paradoxical negative effects.
