The phrase "adjusting rather than" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to indicate a preference for making adjustments instead of taking an alternative action.
Example: "I believe in adjusting rather than completely overhauling the system to improve efficiency."
Alternatives: "modifying instead of" or "tweaking rather than".
All rates given in tables are stabilised and adjusted rather than the crude original rates.
In some cases, the authorities have simply adjusted, rather than ended, their abusive tactics, advocates say, and unrest has continued.
"The government is right to let the market adjust rather than entering into a pissing contest of buying and selling dollars, otherwise you're dead.
Perhaps it was better, she told aides and friends, to remain in Chicago until the end of the school year, giving her children more time to adjust, rather than coming right at the inauguration.
Consequently, we adjusted, rather than stratified, the sample for sex.
For the other POPs, we adjusted, rather than stratified, the sample for sex.
Second, the meta-analysis draws on observational cohort studies, and it is appropriate to analyze adjusted rather than unadjusted effect estimates.
Instead, we argue that the relation between the visual information and the putting action is adjusted, rather than corrections being made for a misperception of the location of the target (see also Van Lier et al., 2011).
Sex interaction was tested in all steps of the analysis, and as there was not any statistically significant differences between the results for men and women, our results are being presented as sex- adjusted rather than stratified by sex.
We required pathways to be present in at least two of the three analyses to be considered enriched and used cut-offs of adjusted (rather than unadjusted) P-values <0.05 for GO and KEGG and false discovery rate <0.05 for GSEA.
