The phrase "a relatively smaller effect" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when comparing the size or impact of an effect in relation to another effect or standard.
Example: "The new policy had a relatively smaller effect on employee productivity compared to the previous changes."
Alternatives: "a comparatively lesser effect" or "a somewhat diminished effect."
Our estimated effects of the minimum wage enforcement on wages and employment (Additional file 1: Tables S3 and S4) show that the enforcement has the largest significant effect on wages and employment in the East, a relatively smaller effect in the Central, and no effect in the West.
Changes in cost variables had a relatively smaller effect on the ICER.
7 31 Consequently, a diagnosis of COPD has a relatively smaller effect on risk of suicide for individuals with psychiatric comorbidity than for those without the comorbidity.
Furthermore, consistent with the greater stability of the N-terminal domain of NeuroD alone, substituting the C-terminus of NeuroD into Ngn2 had a relatively smaller effect on increasing stability than the N-terminal substitution (Fig. 2B, C).
Compared to topical NSAIDs, which have been shown to have an effect size of approximately 0.4 [ 33], MSM also had a relatively smaller effect size in the present study.
The choice of discount rates used had a relatively small effect on the cost-effectiveness ratios.
But this is a relatively small effect (the parents are not close relatives) and it therefore appears likely that there is a non-genetic contribution to the similarity observed between the YRI parents.
The trade war has had a relatively small effect on China's economy.
Their results show a relatively small effect of modestly elevated IAP on these variables in their patient population.
However, texture had a relatively small effect on the overall pleasantness in general.
So in principle, increasing the per-share price would have a relatively small effect on the overall cost of buying Bear.
