The phrase "alternative to assuming" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing different options or approaches that do not involve making assumptions.
Example: "In this situation, an alternative to assuming the worst is to gather more information before making a decision."
Alternatives: "option instead of assuming" or "substitute for assuming".
"I do not see an alternative to assuming they were created by navigators from the Arabic-Islamic culture area, well versed in astronomy and geography," Sezgin writes.
As an alternative to assuming equilibrium, one could model marker allele frequencies along the chromosome as a first-order Markov chain with parameters estimated from the marker data at time t [ 12, 13], but it would be more difficult to integrate this change in the derivations given in the Appendix.
The alternative, to assume h-site existence and instead challenge a-site existence, is much less reasonable.
"My country has no alternative but to assume that Kim Jong Il will continue in power.
"The situation is critical, Franklin," said Walter Lippmann, an influential journalist, "You may have no alternative but to assume dictatorial powers".
"The alternative is to assume that people will simply see through it, draw their own conclusions, and chuckle it off," he said.
You may have no alternative but to assume dictatorial power". But "Franklin," who had, says Mr. Davis, "a strong aversion to any personal exercise of naked..
One alternative is to assume that all fish are unrelated, having the same genetic variance within subpopulations, but different genetic means.
It features a bloodied Thicke (he's the real victim here!) and a superimposed text message conversation which the viewer has no alternative but to assume is between Robin and Paula.
In the classical vortex-in-cell (VIC) method, the grid used to solve the Poisson equation is typically taken much larger than the vorticity field region, so as to be able to impose suitable far-field boundary conditions and thus approximate the truly unbounded (or half-unbounded) flow; an alternative is to assume periodicity.
