The phrase "as a general class of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing categories or groups that share common characteristics or traits.
Example: "As a general class of mammals, whales exhibit unique adaptations for life in the ocean."
Alternatives: "as a broad category of" or "as a general category of".
We consider polytopes as a general class of compact and convex constraint regions.
The hypothesis tested was that relative to placebo, atypicals as a general class of medication would elicit cognitive improvement in SC.
The effects described are for estrogens as a general class of steroid hormones, and no attempt has been made to differentiate between the actions of natural estrogenic hormones and the many synthetic varieties now in wide use to suppress ovulation.
As a general class of recurrent neural networks, Cohen-Grossberg neural networks, including Hopfield neural networks and cellular neural networks as two special cases, were proposed by Cohen and Grossberg in 1983.
These results tend to strengthen the hypothesis that some OTC product sales might be used as an early indicator of a general class of human disease known as acute respiratory condition, if we are successful in extending the estimation algorithms presented here to one for predicting the same results with non zero positive time lags.
Which, as you all know, are a general class of problems.
This paper introduces a framework for discretizing linear multivariate continuous time systems that includes the commonly used Euler and trapezoidal approximations as special cases and leads to a general class of estimators for the mean reversion matrix.
Conversational agents (also known as interactive agents and pedagogical agents) are a general class of learning environments that are either scripted or intelligently adaptive (Atkinson 2002; Craig et al. 2002; Johnson et al. 2000; Graesser and McNamara 2010; Moreno et al. 2001).
We describe a method to discriminate between ordered and turbulent behavior in a general class of collective systems known as Globally Coupled Maps (GCM).
The second contribution of the paper is to introduce a general class of sequential algorithms, denoted as Sequential Probabilistic Validation (SPV).
As applications, we achieve an existence and uniqueness theorem of solution for a general class of nonlinear integral equations.
