Sentence examples for rather to compare from inspiring English sources

Our study was not designed to test a potential difference in mortality but rather to compare trauma and septic patients.

However, our aim here is not to obtain exact numerical values of the polarizability tensor, rather to compare the values of its various components.

Hence, drawings were chosen for more reliability and usefulness in the aim of this study that was not to define the absolute pleasantness of a smile but rather to compare different situations of the same smile combining its components.

This analysis did not aim to control for exclusivity of paths as above, but rather to compare paths' contribution to the model between conditions.

As such, we were unable to comment directly on the accuracy of either test, but rather to compare the findings of each test in relation to prior beliefs about their properties.

We are aware that using Simpson's similarity index might not measure true β-diversity as defined by Tuomisto [30], but our purpose here was not to quantify true β-diversity but rather to compare a specific aspect of β-diversity, i.e., species turnover, between the Alps and the Scandes.

It's rather difficult to compare data from different time periods, according to different methodologies, across different parts of the world, and still come to definitive conclusions.

Rather interesting to compare the BBC's headline and bullet point report of Ben Bernanke's speech today and that elsewhere.

eQTL mapping in the hypothalamus dataset was performed to evaluate computational performance, rather than to compare the results with SNPster.

Rather, they like to compare themselves with Yellowstone National Park two years after an immense forest fire.

Rather, we sought to compare the change in BMI over time within the groups.