The phrase "a reference to test" is not correct in English.
Did you mean "a reference to the test"? You can use it when discussing something that points to or mentions a specific test, often in academic or technical contexts.
Example: "In the report, there is a reference to the test conducted last year to evaluate the new software."
Alternatives: "a mention of the test" or "an allusion to the test".
"This error occurred in our haste to prepare a makeup test that was necessitated by a breach of security," the company said in a reference to test questions being shown on television.
Such channel models have been taken as a reference to test the performance of a DS-CDMA system when different choices of the spreading codes are performed, as discussed in section "Evaluation of binary De Bruijn sequences in DS-CDMA systems".
We alternatively applied each genome as a reference to test the influence of distinct reference genome on the analysis.
The resulting distribution of pseudo- F values was used as a reference to test the significance of the observed pseudo- F value.
A phylogenetic tree was built, and then taken as a reference to test for the position of Aquificales: Aquificales were first removed from the tree, and then re-introduced in the topology in all possible positions.
We used the MtREV mitochondrial model (Adachi and Hasegawa 1996) as a reference to test the fit of other models: the CAT model (Lartillot and Philippe 2004), the mechanistic GTR model (Lanave et al. 1984; Yang et al. 1998), MtZoa (Rota-Stabelli et al. 2009), and MtArt (Abascal et al. 2007).
Patients were classified as HIV 'tested' upon identification of 1 documented testing in the hospital database or 2 a reference to testing performed elsewhere.
He said Britain's chief suspect had proved himself innocent by taking a lie-detector test, apparently a reference to a test Mr. Lugovoi reportedly took for a television documentary in April.
(The term is short for "completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart," a reference to the test proposed by Alan Turing, the British mathematician, to determine if a computer can be said to think like a human).
In a reference to the test ban treaty, the Russian and South Korean leaders said they "appealed to other countries to ratify the treaty without any delays and they also appealed to those countries whose ratification is needed for it to come into effect".
Correction: August 20, 2000, Sunday The Correspondent's Report column on Aug. 6, about detecting and disclosing water pollution at beaches in the United States, included an outdated reference to testing in Florida.
