Sentence examples for alternative to population from inspiring English sources

While this approach alone may introduce an intolerable bias, it could be combined with a name based selection from the phone directory and random dialling into a cost-efficient alternative to population register sampling.

Population density has also been used and is an alternative to population mixing variable (Alexander et al, 1999).

One alternative to population levels as a measure of need is the number of under-five deaths.

Although assembling large eukaryotic genomes, de novo, may not yet be practical (see [ 13]), sets of expressed genes or transcriptomes present a viable and attractive alternative to population genetic analyses of whole genome sequences.

The stochastic models that Sandra Lee and Marvin Zelen designed in the US under CISNET are an alternative to population trials for addressing and responding to most of the questions that arise when developing and assessing the effect of early detection [ 5- 10].

In the literature on inequalities in the distribution of health workers in high-income countries, crude death rate has been proposed as an alternative to population as a measure of health care needs [ 10- 12], the argument being that a high death rate is a signal of an ageing population with high health care needs.

This approach is a practical and preferred alternative to population-based GWAS for first-pass mapping of phenotypes in Anopheles.

Our evaluation of the performance of sentinel laboratory groups suggests that sentinel surveillance is a viable alternative to population-based surveillance in situations where a high degree of accuracy is not required.