The phrase "alternative populations" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing different groups of people or communities that may be considered as options or substitutes in a particular context.
Example: "The study focused on alternative populations, including marginalized communities and underrepresented groups in the research."
Alternatives: "different demographics" or "various groups".
As an alternative, populations of pediatric patients had therefore to be used as control groups.
Subsequently, we applied parametric duration models to alternative populations, decomposed on the basis of the type of study (HBO and WO) and ethnicity.
Therefore the results may not be fully generalisable to alternative populations, with differing distributions, correlations and missing data mechanisms.
Confirmatory investigations are required to examine the extent to which these findings are consistent across alternative populations, distributions and clinical contexts.
Cross-mating experiments were performed between a reference population and three alternative populations that differed in their genetic distance with regard to the former.
The need to overcome the hurdles observed in myoblasts transplantation studies for DMD prompted several laboratories to identify alternative populations of myogenic cells with a better profile in terms of expansion, survival, and migration.
The TB eradication strategy, which is now under public consultation until September, states: "Further research into alternative population control methods is also under consideration.
One task force member, Laura Simon, the urban wildlife director for the Humane Society of the United States, opposed the hunting recommendation and submitted her own report arguing for further study and alternative population-control methods.
This paper examines the influence of alternative population distribution models on GIS-based spatial accessibility analyses using the two-step Floating Catchment Analysis technique.
Although not extensive (collected over three years at nine sites), the monitoring data allowed us to assess and update support for alternative population dynamic models using model probabilities and Bayes rule.
Two alternative population maintenance methods, that we term "Emigration" and "Malthusian" strategies, are deployed to govern how individual product lines in one generation are carried over to the next generation.
