The phrase "affect the comparison of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing factors that influence or change the way two or more items are compared.
Example: "The new data may affect the comparison of the two studies, leading to different conclusions."
Alternatives: "influence the comparison of" or "impact the comparison of".
The PPP factor is based on comparing prices for a basket of goods in Britain to those in the US, and if the prices of non-medical goods shifted differently than medical goods, one could imagine this might somehow affect the comparison of medical prices.
The PVEs, however, do not appear to largely affect the comparison of the kinetic parameters between the control and sorafenib-treated mice, as the similar kinetic analysis was performed in both of the groups.
Although HRF was highly variable across individuals and among different cortical regions of the same individual, HRF variations across cortical regions may not affect the comparison of conditions [41].
We note that this approach may affect the comparison of Model A and B in BayesTraits as an incorrect root node may hamper the detection of trait evolution, hence we repeated our analyses assigning another arbitrary individual bearing the most common haplotype to the root node and checked for concordance of results.
Since 9 months of protection was assumed, the year of 1999 was included because absence of southern hemisphere vaccination in 1998 does not affect the comparison of strategies in 1999 (only if we had detected in January of 1999 a strain already present in the vaccine, but that was not the case).
This was not considered to affect the comparison of dogs since measurements were calculated into ratios.
Also this will not affect the comparisons of different remission criteria in the survival analysis, because all remission criteria were measured at similar time points.
This should not affect the comparisons of HIV positive and negative individuals, and since those with unknown status had similar socio-demographic characteristics as those with known status it should not affect generalisability of the results.
The exclusion criteria were: (1) those with severe diabetic complications (e.g., diabetic foot or severe diabetic retinopathy) and (2) with terminal illness (e.g., cancer, AIDS) or other medical problems that could affect the comparisons of outcomes.
The main objective of our study, therefore, was to explore if accounting for nutritional quality affects the comparison of the environmental impacts of human diets varying in their percentage of animal-source food products (ASFP).
A recently constructed coastal dike has reduced the projected inundation area of Level 1 and 2 tsunamis, and affects the comparison of the inundation area and sedimentary deposits resulting from past tsunamis.
