Sentence examples for methods were preferred from inspiring English sources

Less formal methods were preferred where the circumstances were appropriate.

Direct monetary control methods were preferred in order to control money supply, and banks were forced to deal with "policy loans" under the direction of the Government.

In order to obtain directly colonies for further isolation, agar plate methods were preferred over MPN procedures with liquid media for determining concentrations of fecal bacteria.

Nonparametric methods were preferred to handle non-normally distributed data.

Until the early nineties, parsimony and distance-based tree-building methods were preferred.

M18 Experiential methods were preferred with many opportunities for using clinical experience given as examples.

Here, nonparametric rank-based methods are preferred for making statistical inference.

For the diagnostics of high-brightness H− beams in the SCL, nonintrusive methods are preferred.

In cases that both dimension reduction and variable selection are required, sparse PCA (SPCA) methods are preferred.

There is also some debate on which of these methods is preferred.

However, these techniques are time demanding and faster methods are preferred.