The phrase "are rigorously selected" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a process where items, individuals, or data are chosen with strict criteria or standards.
Example: "The candidates for the scholarship are rigorously selected to ensure only the most qualified individuals are considered."
Alternatives: "are carefully chosen" or "are strictly vetted."
Agronomically important traits are rigorously selected for in breeding programs, establishing population structure in the germplasm.
To better understand the impact of these treatments when applied outside the context of clinical trials, where by necessity the experience is confined to limited numbers of patients who are rigorously selected, observational studies have proven invaluable.
Sperm donors were chosen as study subjects because a) they are rigorously selected healthy fertile men who donate many semen samples over an extended period of time; b) they must adhere to rigid guidelines regarding semen collection; and c) the semen samples were analyzed in a single laboratory.
They were rigorously selected out of the 29 submitted manuscripts and the reviewers have put much effort into supporting the review process that, for most of the manuscripts, had three iterations.
Each reference in this database is rigorously selected to assure non-redundancy, and updates are performed on a continuous basis.
The Kenyan facilitators were rigorously selected and trained, and first conducted trial focus group sessions to determine their ability to consistently and accurately direct the discussion.
Country of birth was used as a proxy for refugee background, however, in accordance with our previously published work [ 17], humanitarian and non-humanitarian source countries were rigorously selected to limit misclassification of individuals as much as possible.
Contributing centres were rigorously selected on the basis that they: Demonstrated a reasonably high and consistent level of data recording and outcome measurement as part of their routine clinical practice.
This was accomplished by Citigroup's misrepresenting that the Fund's assets were attractive investments rigorously selected by an independent investment adviser, whereas in fact Citigroup had arranged to include in the portfolio a substantial percentage of negative projected assets and had then taken a short position in those very assets it had helped select.
These extended survival rates was obtained in rigorously selected patients presenting with local, resectable carcinomatosis [ 30].
This meta-analysis was rigorously designed: trials selected had the same control arm with the same radiotherapy without concomitant chemotherapy, the definition of the primary outcome (overall survival) was homogeneous and analysis was made in intent to treat.
