Sentence examples for a solution was preferred from inspiring English sources

A solution was preferred over addition of solid salts because this enabled use of a dispenser and eliminated additional weighing of the salts.

For the latent class analysis, a review of the model fit indices shows that a six-class solution was preferred (Table  3).

A review of the model fit indices with covariates shows that a six-class solution was preferred.

Schwartz et al. showed that although a sweet lactose solution was preferred over water, some infants rejected it.

Thus, a three-factor solution was preferred which explained 85% of the total variance, with all communalities above 0.60.

Three scale class solutions were unstable for some starting value seeds (and were considered to be unlikely given the number of modes in Figure  1), as were two-scale three- and four-preference class solutions; hence, a two-scale two-preference class solution was preferred.

This finding is consistent with an earlier confirmatory factor analysis of the responses of 141 teachers which suggested that a four-factor rather than three-factor solution was preferred.

This solution was preferred because it turned out to be an excellent alternative to database for retrieving rapidly expression values for the selected TS.

This private-sector solution was preferred because the government did not have to use public funds to bail out the failing institution, which would have been more costly and highly unpopular with the public (White & Yorulmazer (2014)).

Both the fixed-effects and random-effects model confirmed (p < 0.05) the significant effect of chilling in decreasing Salmonella occurrence on pig carcasses; although the random-effects solution was preferred to account for the significant variability in effect size (p < 0.001) estimated from the 13 primary studies considered, the 32 abattoirs surveyed, and the 51 sampled batches.

The 2-factor solution was preferred over the 1-factor solution based on model fit indices.