It is correct and can be used in written English.
It is used to refer to criteria or standards used to make a decision or judgment based on making certain people or groups of people more or less favored than others. For example: The company used preferential criteria to select the applicants for the positions, favoring those with more experience.
The English and French clubs gave notice 15 months ago of their intention to quit the Heineken Cup in 2014, citing preferential qualifying criteria for Celtic sides and uneven distribution of revenues.
The preferential choice criteria for an LAI formulation (as 1st line treatment) in bipolar patients are: Patients presenting poor adherence with non-acceptance of a long-term oral treatment.
The preferential choice criteria for an LAI formulation (as 1st line treatment) in patients with schizophrenia are: Patients presenting frequent relapses, poor adherence or non-acceptance of a long-term treatment.
In a series of thought experiments, actors compute their utility of contributing a specific statement to the discourse by following ideological criteria, preferential attachment, agenda-setting strategies, governmental coherence, or other mechanisms.
For children fulfilling these criteria, preferential use of low-volume hypotonic fluids (0.45% sodium content) is recommended since it is commonly considered that malnourished children are at increased risk of developing congestive heart failure and sodium and water overload[ 8].
Similarly, we searched for clusters with at least three preferentially expressed genes among the six adjacent genes (loose clusters) to include genes that could be preferentially expressed but did not pass the above criterion for preferential expression or their expression was not detected by SAGE.
The selection criterion for preferential glomerular expression was set as an expression difference exceeding twice this standard deviation (mean + 2*SD = 1.76) resulting in a dataset of 817 glomerular-enriched probesets.
First, the criterion for "preferential" expression is unconventional.
Combining observations of slip markings and polycrystalline modeling, it is shown that considering pure cubic elastic behavior, maximum resolved shear stress as a criterion for type II slip markings preferential sites is 70% reliable criterion.
Independence phenomena among these criteria and mutual preferential independence of decision makers are thus violated.
