The phrase "avoid fits" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where one is advising someone to prevent or steer clear of emotional outbursts or seizures.
Example: "To maintain a calm environment, it's important to avoid fits of anger during discussions."
Alternatives: "prevent outbursts" or "steer clear of tantrums".
The denominator from these measures adjusted for the magnitude of the epidemic curve to avoid fitting the model mainly to the peak, where differences could over-inflate the fitting statistic and under-value differences during the early and late stages of the epidemic.
The goal, and I paraphrase Box here, is to avoid fitting our work to the tools that we have, and instead fit our tooling to our needs.
Felipe Massa, meanwhile, will simply hope his mechanics manage to avoid fitting a wheel on the wrong side of his Williams after his botched pit stop in China.
They borrow traits from both IPOs and traditional crowdfunding (e.g. Kickstarter, Indiegogo), while at the same time they bear enough difference to avoid fitting into any of those categories.
Further, the scheme is a complex one involving Enbridge's choice to add pressure pump stations on both sides of the border to two pipelines, Enbridge Line 3 and Enbridge Line 67, to avoid fitting under the legal umbrella of a "cross-border" pipeline.
To avoid fitting an over-parameterized model, in the initial screen only the interaction terms were included.
However, we chose not to make use of these sources of information to avoid fitting our data to our assumptions, some of which remain to be tested explicitly.
Because of this, in the initial screen of the 626 phenotypes only the interaction terms were considered to avoid fitting an over-parameterized model.
In order to avoid fitting the model to trivial artefacts of the data further improvements in model fit were not carried out.
