The phrase "allow for preference" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the need to accommodate or take into account individual choices or inclinations in a particular context.
Example: "In our new policy, we will allow for preference in scheduling to better meet the needs of our employees."
Alternatives: "consider individual preferences" or "take preferences into account."
8Note that nothing essential changes in our conclusions if we also allow for preference-based discrimination and/or perceived differences in the mean of unobserved variables.
Costs and QALYs accrued in year 2 were discounted at 3.5% to allow for time preference (ie, the tendency to prefer benefits sooner and costs later).
The approaches used in the literature to deal with this problem vary from excluding those respondents to using applying latent class models to endogenously allow for different preference structures.
Patients were given the AVPI to watch at home: there were three different formats (video, CD-Rom, DVD) to allow for patient preference and availability of equipment at home.
The law does allow for residency preferences in affordable housing, said Michael Santoro, a community development specialist in the state Department of Economic and Community Development.
Relaxing this assumption to allow for changing preferences is not straightforward.
We reassessed preference for drug based on annual data to allow for changes in preference over time and for accommodating the recent availability of adalimumab.
Dubois and Perrone (2015) extend the model of Hortaçsu and Syverson to allow for heterogeneous consumer preferences; thus, products are differentiated both vertically and horizontally.
Leyonhjelm described the agreement between the government, the Greens and the independent senator Nick Xenophon to move to a system of optional preferential voting and abolish group voting tickets that allowed for backroom preference deals as a "dirty little deal".
Andersen et al. [29] also argued that allowing for risk preference leads to a significant difference in elicited discount rates.
