"patterns of preferences" is correct and usable in written English.
It refers to recurring behaviors or choices that reflect a person or group's particular likes or dislikes. Example: The study examined the patterns of preferences among different age groups when it comes to leisure activities.
While big data looks for patterns of preferences, Soros often looks for patterns of error.
Patterns of preferences for CVC according to training status are represented in Fig. 1b.
A specific aim was to analyze the heterogeneity of preferences for cow trait improvements by determining whether there are farmer types that can be identified with specific patterns of preferences.
The different patterns of preferences for treatment location by presenting context are depicted in figure 1.
Furthermore, alternative explanations for patterns of preferences, in particular the proposal that masculinity is primarily an intrasexual signal, have been neglected.
The resulting patterns of preferences were descriptively compared to identify any variations in intentions to access healthcare or the public's preferences for how this care is delivered.
Such a pattern of preferences (I preferred to II but IV preferred to III) cannot be rationalised as the choices of a precise expected utility maximiser.
On Sunday, Mr. Stern had suggested that what appeared to be a segregation of assignments might simply "reflect normal patterns of interest and patterns of preference".
These stories matter because they reveal important patterns of preference, need and aspiration, some of them new, some of them old and all of them relevant to meeting the challenges that rapid journey towards 10 million presents.
In time cells should accumulate on patterns of preference, while migrating away from patterns of disfavor.
To run studies of quantified responses to controlled and isolated aesthetic stimuli, where emergent patterns of preference, response, and judgment are recorded within a given population's sample, is to pass by the true character of the aesthetic issue the actual puzzlement, such as we feel it, will be conceptual, not empirical.
