Sentence examples for but rather to compare from inspiring English sources

Our study was not designed to test a potential difference in mortality but rather to compare trauma and septic patients.

Hence, drawings were chosen for more reliability and usefulness in the aim of this study that was not to define the absolute pleasantness of a smile but rather to compare different situations of the same smile combining its components.

This analysis did not aim to control for exclusivity of paths as above, but rather to compare paths' contribution to the model between conditions.

As such, we were unable to comment directly on the accuracy of either test, but rather to compare the findings of each test in relation to prior beliefs about their properties.

We are aware that using Simpson's similarity index might not measure true β-diversity as defined by Tuomisto [30], but our purpose here was not to quantify true β-diversity but rather to compare a specific aspect of β-diversity, i.e., species turnover, between the Alps and the Scandes.

The trial was designed not to compare specific drugs but, rather, to compare the two mechanistically different treatment strategies.

The purpose is not to compare, but rather to assist in selecting the appropriate tool for a study.

Regardless, our objective was not to test causal research hypotheses (when prespecified confidence thresholds are useful), but rather to help decision-makers compare the efficacy of different interventions [ 39, 40].

As our main goal is not to estimate the probability densities of the ensembles, but rather to use the density estimates to compare two ensembles, we therefore turned to a dimensionality reduction approach in order to find 'order parameters' that would automatically describe the conformations in a subspace of reduced dimensionality.

Our aim was not to compare methods, but rather to find a method able to recapitulate to an acceptable level of accuracy the classifications within these data sets.

The harsh policies are acknowledged, but not attributed specifically to Moreno, but rather to the whole Junta, and compared with similar royalist measures used to punish the Chuquisaca, the La Paz revolution, and the indigenous rebellion of Túpac Amaru II.