The phrase "an overall preference" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a general inclination or tendency towards something, often in comparison to other options.
Example: "After considering all the options, I have developed an overall preference for the blue design over the red one."
Alternatives: "a general preference" or "a predominant preference".
It does not appear to be driven by an overall preference for inpatient management, because the enhanced inpatient option was also less preferred than basic care.
This alone wasn't very surprising, given that the other studies found an overall preference among babies for those who act nicely.
A study of 445 patients reports an overall preference of 87% for inpatient hallway beds.
Questionnaire results indicated an overall preference towards the centralized system (4.6 ± 0.3 vs. 4.1 ± 0.5), p = 0.033.
Furthermore, while they still show an overall preference for car, respondents without kids are more likely than those with kids to choose transit for their trips.
The discrete-choice method revealed an overall preference ranking F > FR > R, with a high level of transitivity expressed between sets.
Our findings showed a clear overall preference for HPV triage among women in the informed choice group (65% v 35%).
The remaining patients (45.3%) did not have a clear overall preference for one of both counselling types.
However, for none of the marker types, after 2 years of exposure, did we identify a significant overall preference for one of the parents.
The negative constant associated with "Given these options, I would not get screened" suggests a strong overall preference for participation in CRC screening programs.
For instance, the multiple criteria decision framework (see, for instance, Keeney and Raiffa 1993) takes an agent's overall preference ordering over options to be an aggregate of the set of preference orderings corresponding to all the pertinent dimensions of value.
