Recent events cause some to wonder whether the literacy tests that voters in some states were required to pass, before voting, from the early 1890s until the 1960s, are preferable to the methods used today to disenfranchise minority voters.
In the presence of heterogeneity, experimental and biologically-based methods for assessing gene expression in relation to p53 status are preferable to statistical methods.
In terms of effort and cost of benchmarking, figures derived automatically from the routine HIS system are preferable to manual methods like surveys, in particular for repeated analysis.
- With fewer than about 15 clusters per arm, cluster-level analyses are preferable to methods based on individual-level data.
This suggests that even in studies with small sample sizes, multi-locus approaches are preferable to single-locus methods.
When higher recall is preferred, methods requiring a majority are preferable to those that demand full consensus among annotators.
Therefore, non-invasive methods are preferable to reduce pain and suffering to a minimum11.
We therefore concluded that the OBC methods are preferable to obtain a reliable free-energy landscape.
It is also generally accepted that certain methods are preferable to others to determine the "true value" of a measurand in a sample.
Therefore, we believe that Method 3 is preferable to Method 2, given also that Method 2, but not Method 3, requires the proportional hazards assumption, which may or may not be realistic.
Thus to cryopreserve lily meristems, droplet-vitrification method is preferable to the vitrification method.
