The phrase "affected the selection" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing factors or influences that have an impact on a choice or decision-making process.
Example: "The recent changes in policy significantly affected the selection of candidates for the scholarship program."
Alternatives: "influenced the choice" or "impacted the decision".
We show that this highway expansion reduced inter-regional trade costs and affected the selection of firms and resource allocation among firms.
An athlete representative to the association and to the United States Olympic Committee, Smith has been a proponent of athlete's rights and feared her voice might have affected the selection process.
In the final section, we illustrate how these considerations have affected the selection of variables in national election studies and discuss prospects for a greater comparative focus in the future.
With George W. Bush and John Kerry all but deadlocked in most national polls and the election still more than three months away, leaders of both parties can find some solace in history: The site of a national convention has virtually never affected the selection of the candidate, the choice of his running mate, the content of the platform or the outcome of the election.
A general limitation of all measures is that they were not collected prior to preschool education but at the end of primary school so that they may not only have affected the selection into treatment but also vice versa.
Our results show that the amount of wealth affected the selection pressure on female life-history in a pre-industrial human population.
In fact, ahead of deciding the target products for simulations, the flowrate and shape selectivity issues, which affect the selection of products for research, have been considered already.
The stage of the disease affects the selection of treatment methods, with rehabilitative therapy often selected in the early stage and surgical treatment in the late stage.
Describing who will be selected for the interview and the principles that affect the selection will make it easy to interpret the findings.
Doctoroff said he did not know whether the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks would affect the selection process.
