The phrase "as a reference approach" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a method or strategy that serves as a guideline or benchmark for comparison in a particular context.
Example: "In our study, we utilized the existing literature as a reference approach to frame our research questions and methodology."
Alternatives: "as a benchmark method" or "as a guiding framework".
Since in the past analysis of the forestry and wood products industries' impact on the CO2 balance was assigned to national GHG emissions, it was only used as a reference in Approach I [52].
This map provides a valuable resource for mapping phenotypic variations and serves as a reference to approach comparative genomics and understand the evolution of fish genomes and could be complementary to grass carp genome sequencing project.
Since in the past analysis of the forestry and wood products industries' impact on the CO2 balance was assigned to national GHG emissions, it was only used as a reference in Approach I [ 52].
Strategies to tackle stress, such as Critical Incident Stress Management and the BICEPS (Brevity, Immediacy, Centrality, Expectancy, Proximity and Simplicity) used by the military for the management of stress in the workplace, have been taken as a reference for approaches to the situation of second victims [ 13, 16, 17].
On the other hand, the approximation error modelling, in which statistical properties of the modelling error are utilised instead of a reference measurement, can be used to obtain as good quality reconstructions as the reference approach.
Home addresses were geocoded using individual building matching as the reference approach and three spatial interpolation approaches.
Although regarded as the reference approach to assessment of kidney function, it is increasingly appreciated that non-inulin plasma clearance methods are not all equivalent [ 11].
Moreover, this method has been recommended as the reference approach for determination of GFR by the Nephrology Committee of Society of Nuclear Medicine [ 25], and is widely used as a standard method for evaluation of kidney function and estimation of GFR in China.
Despite being considered as the reference approach to identify the number of factors to retain, the applicability of the parallel analysis is somewhat limited when the data are non-normally distributed.
