Sentence examples for preferred to ordinary from inspiring English sources

The M-L procedure was preferred to ordinary linear least squares regression after log transformation of d because some concentrations in tissues other than liver were below the LOQ.

Since Spearman rank correlation describes the monotonicity of bivariate relationship and is not sensitive to high leverage points this measure was preferred to the ordinary linear correlation coefficient.

This is preferred to the ordinary least square (OLS) estimator which fails to account for qualitative differences between the limit observations (those with zero WTP) and the non-limit observations (those with WTP > 0), leading to erroneous estimation of the marginal effects [ 17].

The LulzSec team of self-described "evil bastards" wrote in a press release that it preferred to abuse more ordinary folks and organisations for "a jolt of satisfaction".

The government badly wanted this last foot-soldier to be memorialised; but he preferred to be uncelebrated and ordinary, even in some sense forgotten, and thus the more symbolic of all the rest.

Perhaps they would prefer to be ordinary numbers, "but for some reason they couldn't do it".

He refused several official positions at the Sui and Tang courts, preferring to treat ordinary people in the countryside.

Even though singers and ballet dancers were allowed to be gay in Russia, ordinary people preferred to hide it the best they could.

What was striking then was that large majorities of ordinary voters preferred to stick with the single currency despite the austerity imposed by the conditions of their bail-outs, because they feared that any alternative would be even more painful.

Prime Minister Howard and Queensland Premier Beattie had offered to hold a state funeral, but Irwin's family decided this would not be appropriate and in the words of his father, Bob Irwin he would have preferred to be remembered as an "ordinary bloke".

Some fretted about hurting ordinary Iranians; others preferred to wait for a request from Mr Obama; others still wanted sanctions agreed by the UN Security Council, to ensure that Russia and China were on board.