The phrase "akin to controls" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to draw a comparison or similarity between two concepts, indicating that one is similar to the other in some way.
Example: "The new software features are akin to controls found in traditional video games, making it easier for users to navigate."
Alternatives: "similar to controls" or "comparable to controls".
It is important to recognise that since over half of the men allocated to the intervention arm did not accept the invitation for screening or were ineligible for screening and did not have a PSA test (see Figure 1), cancers detected among 'non-attendees' would be more akin to control arm cancers.
For constitutional conservatives, the most worrisome feature of the Troubled Asset Relief Program was the possibility that government funds would come with strings attached, leading to government control of financial institutions akin to the control the government now has over General Motors.
Nets Coach Byron Scott was not about to repeat his bold claim from the Charlotte series that a victory in Game 2 would be akin to "total control".
PEP — the medication I am taking — has been called the H.I.V. morning-after pill, and PrEP, to follow the analogy, is akin to birth control.
Stated choice models involve careful experimental design, akin to experimental control in laboratory settings.
This is akin to congestion/rate control by base-stations and leads to the following result.
In DBPD which is akin to performance control, member strengths and stiffnesses are assigned rather than tested.
Hence, we have a practical way akin to congestion control where we trade side information of other transmitters at a transmitter by some information from receiver.
This one-time feedback is akin to congestion/rate control [6, 7], where the receiver informs each node of their allowable rate at the beginning of the communication.
It's been noted that something akin to the control yuan already exists in America.
