The phrase 'comparative reference' is not correct in written English and you would not use it.
If you are trying to compare two things, you could use phrases such as "in comparison to," "when compared to," or "relative to." For example, "The rainforest is much larger when compared to the jungle."
Siegel's P/E based on market-cap weighting loses comparative reference to the past and thus loses its meaning as we start comparing apples (his computation) and oranges (aggregate, S&P's computation).
A comparative reference point is also often used to anchor the assessment, such as comparing current health to previous health (self-comparative), or same-aged peers (age-comparative).
(iii) Lack of at least two external control lines for comparison in order to have a wider comparative reference material.
An additional diet using lupin kernel meal (LM) to replace the fish meal was also included as a comparative reference.
As a comparative reference, ET values Penman-Monteith ET (ET_PM) rates were calculated for short grass reference surfaces from a meteorological dataset (Allen et al. 1998).
In this sense, VuWiki supports scholars in determining the explicit and implicit assumptions made in a particular assessment with respect to a comparative reference system.
In order to clarify the relevance of this history to today's international accounting issues, a few comparative references are also made to the recent development and implementation process of International Accounting Standards and International Financial Reporting Standards (IAS/IFRS).
To make diachronic analysis on a malicious candidate (uin C_{kappa _{o}}^{tau }cup C_{kappa _{l}}^{tau }), we need to choose several historical periods as comparative references, denoted by (varGamma ).
Amazon news releases often make comparative references without sharing specific data.
Hence for comparative referencing, we adopted the minimal sequence definition proposed by the REDfly database.
Key informants were asked to specifically discuss their respective provinces during the interview, though comparative references to other provinces or reference to national events and milestones were permitted.
