The phrase "alternative to choosing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing options or choices available in a particular context, indicating a different option instead of making a selection.
Example: "When faced with multiple options, it's important to consider the alternative to choosing the most popular one."
Alternatives: "option other than selecting" or "substitute for making a choice".
Moral judgment offers an alternative to choosing sides based on status or relationships by conditioning support on disputants' actions rather than their identities.
Integrative thinking My study of how highly successful leaders think, published in 2007 in The Opposable Mind, argued that when facing what appears to be an unpleasant trade-off between incommensurable options, there is always, in fact, another alternative to choosing one at the expense of the other.
An alternative to choosing very small "c-genes" is to use longer genes, hoping that effects of recombination are minimal.
An alternative to choosing the best of a series of models that fit the data reasonably well is model averaging, in which the exposure response results from different models are averaged using some sort of weighting scheme.
In most cases, there is no alternative to choosing a best-fitting model from a collection of regression models on the basis of goodness-of-fit criteria (Scholze et al. 2001; Slob 2001).
As a third alternative to choose hyper-parameters, expert knowledge may be available on the size of hyper-parameters.
Thus, the decision framework includes a specification of the system, the identification of alternative choices for its management, the recognition of consequences, and a mechanism for deciding which alternative to choose under different circumstances.
Requiring three top-class voices, and with so many greater Verdi alternatives to choose from, it is rarely done.
A well-defined R&D agenda is worthless without a sophisticated knowledge of the full range of technical alternatives to choose from.
And because of the absence of third parties in America, the range of political alternatives to choose from may be narrower than many realize.
While not tipping his hand, Bochy was indicating to some extent that he did not have many great alternatives to choose from.
