The phrase "avoid assumptions such as" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when advising someone to refrain from making certain assumptions in a discussion or analysis.
Example: "In our analysis, we should avoid assumptions such as that all participants have the same level of experience."
Alternatives: "steer clear of assumptions like" or "refrain from assumptions such as".
The aim is to provide explicit equations needed for computer-modeling of, e.g., diffusion-controlled phase transformations, but avoiding the usual simplifying assumptions, such as the independence of the fluxes of different atomic species.
The approach was to accept these individual family choices, avoid assumptions related to infant care (such as that the infant sleeps in his or her own room in a crib), and allow for multiple approaches to maternal and infant sleep practices.
The model can efficiently support green-field cases, particularly avoiding or integrating the traditional assumptions, such as load and coincidence factors (usually employed to determine the contractual electrical power), which provide a static view of the power needs of the system.
We also elected to use air monitor data to avoid the uncertainty associated with air quality modeling assumptions such as emissions inventories and chemical mixing (U.S. EPA 2008b).
Many genomic studies of polyploids, including salmonids, exclude duplicates to avoid inclusion of loci that deviate from standard assumptions such as Hardy-Weinberg proportions (Poland et al. 2012; Gagnaire et al. 2013; Hyma and Fay 2013; Limborg et al. 2014).
Similar to a recent study in the United States (11 ), we used empirical distributions for source distributions, such as the number of hospitalizations or deaths, to avoid assumptions about the expected shape of these distributions.
Assumptions (such as a stationarity assumption) are therefore required to reduce the number of model parameters.
We might call assumptions such as these "scientific axioms" to distinguish them from the simplifying assumptions encountered in model building.
Model assumptions, such as normality assumptions, will be tested and appropriate methods used to ensure assumptions are met.
